Cinnamon Flash usb stops after grub , after most recent update ( today morning)

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Well, now the system has restarted. Many many thanks. two more questions:

  1. When will a new version of mkinitcpio be released that is compatible with my system, and how will I know?
  2. I have another SSD usb flash with newer manjaro-kde, which I have not updated yet. To prevent everything from happening again, before updating I edit /etc/pacman.conf
    and I add
IgnorePkg = mkinitcpio

Is this sufficient ? should I downgrade in this case as well ?

Thank you again :beers:

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Thank you for the method of avoiding this problem with a flash drive installation. If I refuse the Manjaro update of mkinitcpio from 34-1.1 to 35.2-2, I can update my system and reboot it without seeing the dreaded “can’t find UUID” message.

Just for interest, I did a fresh installation of Manjaro to my flash drive and saw that the mkinitcpio version was 34-1.1. I then updated this new installation, including mkinitcpio to 35.2-2, and to my amazement I could reboot the system without any problems. So it seems that there is something in my old installation which is incompatible with 35.2-2, which makes me doubt that any “fix” for mkinitcpio can be hoped for. Perhaps if dracut is adopted by Manjaro this will save me having to reinstall my whole system.

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I too performed again a btrfs installation on SSD from the latest ISO, but on the first update the problem recurs, and is only unlocked with the above procedure. I hope the genius maintainers will soon fix the problem, which by the way, as was to be expected, does not recur with an ext4 installation on SSD.

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Thank you all very much for sharing your experiences. Like the vast majority I use “ext4” on a “USB memory” and I had the same problem when starting my computer. (A curious fact that I still can’t understand is that when I connected my USB memory to an old computer, it worked fine, that is, the system started normally. But when I connected it to another more modern computer, this same error appeared)

I spent several days trying to identify what the problem was and finally managed to solve it thanks to this forum…

Just in case I share my solution (I do this whole process from a bootable USB drive):
Download the package from: Index of /packages/m/mkinitcpio/
sudo manjaro-chroot -a
sudo pacman -U mkinitcpio-34-2-any.pkg.tar.zst
sudo nano /etc/pacman.conf

GENERAL OPTIONS
[options]
IgnorePkg=mkinitcpio