In the middle of running the latest updates yesterday my system ran out of memory, I guess, and kicked me out to the login screen. It was as if I had pressed ctrl+alt+backspace. I logged back in to close down some persistent things and then went for a reboot. It was then that I was confronted by this scary message, with no access to the login screen.
Reading through some threads it seems like the solution is not too difficult, using “chroot”.
Of note, I have a LUKS encypted installation, and I’m not sure if I have a swap partition or not. When I looked in GParted there didn’t seem to be one. There was sda2 and no sda3. Also my system is a non-UEFI system, from 10+ years ago, it has a BIOS. I don’t know if this effects the process or not.
If I don’t have a swap do I just leave out the line about the swap?
Exactly as I said. You’ll need to chroot into your system and reinstall your kernel…
Considering it want:
…And version 6.5 is not EOL yet - I use it myself, so I know - it seems the update was interrupted somehow, somewhy. So I’m thinking especially my second link:
I get the same hang after typing the crypt password. There is a message about irq interrupts, but that has pretty much always been there. The system is unresponsive at this point.
The errors say something along the lines of:
0.000000___common_interrupt: 2.55 No irq handler for vector
with numbers afterwards being 4.55, 1.55, 3.55, and 5.55.