I am a linux user for 15 years and Manjaro happy user for over 5.
I have it installed on my Dell Lattitude and untill today it was rather simless experience.
Today I was doing an update. It was a while since a last one, so I had like 3,8GB. Half way through the proccess I got logged off from the system.
I have logged back in but was not able to finish an update, so I have rebooted the system.
I could not boot, I got [/boot/initramfs-5.4-x86_64.img not found] error.
After checking the forum I found this:
I managed to boot into the system.
No I have unusable Cinnamon. When it starts, I can see the wallpaper but it goes black after few seconds, I have no panel, shortcuts does not work, windows managment isn’t working.
Tried google but can’t find any solution.
What should I do ?
You need to boot from USB, chroot (manjaro-chroot -a) and run/finish the interrupted update.
pacman -Syu
and for good measure: mkinitcpio -P update-grub
In that case you could try to just run and finish the update from there - maybe it’ll work.
… as long as you have a working terminal - if not:
use a TTY (CTRL+ALT+F3 for instance)
The same procedure as above - just use sudo with each command.
sudo pacman -Syu
...
… when an update which includes the kernel gets interrupted, you end up with no initrd, because it gets removed at the beginning but is only regenerated at the end of the update - at the point you didn’t get to due to the interruption.
Perhaps you just got lucky with that command - it’s always best to update using: sudo pacman -Syu
or, in your case sudo pacman -Syu cinnamon
One should practically never install one package separately, but always make sure the whole system gets updated along with it, which is what -Syu does.