Can not boot Manjaro after crash during update

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Hi @berend,

I’d recommend booting from the USB stick, entering a chroot environment, and running the update again.

How to enter a chroot environment.

  1. Ensure you’ve got a relatively new ISO or at least one with an LTS kernel.

  2. Write/copy/dd the ISO to a USB thumb drive.

  3. When done, boot with the above mentioned USB thumb drive into the live environment.

  4. Once booted, open a terminal and enter the following command to enter the chroot encironment:

manjaro-chroot -a
  1. If you have more than one Linux installation, select the correct one to use from the list provided.

When done, you should now be in the chroot environment.

But, be careful, as you’re now in an actual root environment on your computer, so any changes you make will persist after a restart.

  1. From the chroot environment, run the update again, and hope nothing goes wrong:
pamac upgrade --enable-downgrade --aur --devel
  1. If all goes well, and there aren’t any errors, exit the chroot environment:
exit

  1. Followed by rebooting, doing a song, a dance, holding your thumbs and hoping for the best.

  2. If all went well, everything should be good again.

Hope this helps!

Edit:

Just saw you mention the drive is encrypted. Well, in theory, it should still work. However, I’ve no experience with it, so it might now, in which case…well, in which case, I don’t know. Sorry.

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