Encrypted system is not booting after stable update

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I had the same issue but my experience was different. My chain of even, with only kernel 6.12 being installed before update was this:

  1. full system update with sudo pacman-static -Syu
  2. update from mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew (this is where the problem lies)
  3. update grub
  4. install kernel 6.18
  5. reboot. 6.12 booted fine, 6.18 did not.

After mucking with it, trying to get 6.18 to boot, I instead managed to also get 6.12 to not boot, in exact same manner. Off to booting new preview ISO, and chrooting.

  1. Open luks drive in dolphin(its just easier this way for me)

  2. mount EFI partition to opened luks

  3. manjaro-chroot /yourdrive/opened /bin/bash

  4. edit mkinitcpio.conf and look for HOOKS

    ##OLD20251209_HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode kms modconf keyboard keymap consolefont block encrypt filesystems fsck)
    ##NEW20251209_HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard keymap sd-vconsole block encrypt filesystems fsck)
    HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode kms modconf keyboard keymap consolefont block encrypt filesystems fsck)

  5. luckily, ive made backups(i dont care for anyones semantics for ‘backup’, this is backup) for old HOOKS and noting new HOOKS. I was able to boot with the following HOOKS
    HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode kms modconf keyboard keymap consolefont block encrypt filesystems fsck)

  6. in chroot, run mkinitcpio -P

  7. in chroot, run update-grub

After all this, I was able to boot both with 6.12 and 6.18. I would very much like to know what is wrong with the new HOOKS set for booting encrypted drive but at least old one still works.

mod. edit: made a new thread to address specific questions

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@giddily172 this is most probably because your configuration is not right while switching to systemd init:

As an example, here is my configuration:

HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard sd-vconsole plymouth block sd-encrypt filesystems fsck)

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=‘rd.luks.key=/path/to/keyfile rd.luks.name=device-UUID=root root=/dev/mapper/root quiet splash loglevel=3 systemd.show_status=auto rd.udev.log_level=3’

As a reference: [Unstable Update] November 2025 - #35 by pheiduck

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This looks wrong. IMHO it should read

#    HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard sd-vconsole sd-encrypt block filesystems fsck)

In addition: If systemd hook is used, base can be skipped.

Reference:

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Thank you Wollie and @vcottineau and @Aragorn for your provided solutions, explanations and resources for this issue. Reading through your posts and then further the archwiki for mkinitcpio and dm-crypt/System configuration I went with the following HOOKS

HOOKS=(systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard sd-vconsole sd-encrypt block filesystems fsck)

I’ve ommited base, as from my understanding is redundant with systemd but I still ended up with same issue, unbootable system in same way. Should this work? Am I missing something, in order to be able to boot luks system with systemd HOOKS? Reading through Common hooks on wiki and the notes, this should work and boot, shouldnt it?

I’ve also tried the following HOOKS, just in case moving blocks before sd-encrypt would make a difference but still same unbootable result as before.

HOOKS=(systemd autodetect microcode modconf block kms keyboard sd-vconsole sd-encrypt filesystems fsck)
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@giddily172

For reference; You’ll find a list of hooks available, with descriptions, here:

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As I’ve mentioned, I did. It has been linked even in the post I’m replying to and mentioning going through it, including the HOOKS section, with the results posted.

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After you changed the HOOKS, did you regenerate the initramfs’?

sudo mkinitcpio -P
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Too much back-scrolling for the wee hours, I’m afraid.
The link will no doubt be useful to someone. :wink:

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Of course

sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo update-grub

And then chroot again, to revert, but wihtout sudo.

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Cool, then I have no real idea, sorry.

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@giddily172, please chroot and provide from within chroot-environment output of

# inxi -zv8
# cat /etc/fstab
# fdisk -l
# gparted -l
# blkid
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sudo mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /run/media/manjaro/ac9981da-f704-479c-ab21-1c31a29664ad/boot/efi
manjaro-chroot /run/media/manjaro/ac9981da-f704-479c-ab21-1c31a29664ad /bin/bash
tty: ttyname error: No such device

inxi:

System:
  Kernel 6.18.0-1-MANJARO arch x86_64 bits 64 compiler gcc v 15.2.1 clocksource tsc
    avail hpet,acpi_pm parameters BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
    misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_251PRE1 quiet systemd.show_status=1 splash
    driver=free nouveau.modeset=1 i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1
  Desktop KDE Plasma v ERR-101 tk Qt v N/A wm kwin_wayland dm N/A Distro Manjaro base Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type Desktop System ASUS product N/A v N/A serial N/A
  Mobo ASUSTeK model ROG CROSSHAIR VIII DARK HERO v Rev X.0x serial <filter> part-nu SKU
    uuid 4c54ddb1-4204-a91a-8c6f-04421aa98c6e Firmware UEFI vendor American Megatrends v 5302
    date 10/03/2025
Battery:
  Message No system battery data found. Is one present?
Memory:
  System RAM total 32 GiB available 31.25 GiB used 2.65 GiB (8.5%)
  Array-1 capacity 128 GiB slots 4 modules 2 EC None max-module-size 32 GiB note est.
  Device-1 DIMM_A1 type no module installed
  Device-2 DIMM_A2 type DDR4 detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) size 16 GiB
    speed 3200 MT/s volts curr 1.2 min 1.2 max 1.2 width (bits) data 64 total 64
    manufacturer G Skill Intl part-no F4-3200C14-16GTZ serial N/A
  Device-3 DIMM_B1 type no module installed
  Device-4 DIMM_B2 type DDR4 detail synchronous unbuffered (unregistered) size 16 GiB
    speed 3200 MT/s volts curr 1.2 min 1.2 max 1.2 width (bits) data 64 total 64
    manufacturer G Skill Intl part-no F4-3200C14-16GTZ serial N/A
PCI Slots:
  Slot 0 type PCIe status in use length long volts 3.3 bus-ID 00:03.1 children 1 0b:00.0
    class-ID 0604 type bridge children 1 0c:00.0 class-ID 0604 type bridge children 1 0d:00.0
    class-ID 0300 type display 2 0d:00.1 class-ID 0403 type audio
  Slot 1 type PCIe status available length long volts 3.3 bus-ID 00:1f.7
  Slot 2 type PCIe status available length short volts 3.3 bus-ID 00:1f.7
  Slot 3 type PCIe status available length short volts 3.3 bus-ID 00:1f.7
CPU:
  Info model AMD Ryzen 5 5600 socket AM4 bits 64 type MT MCP arch Zen 3+ gen 3 level v3 note check
    built 2022 process TSMC n6 (7nm) family 0x19 (25) model-id 0x21 (33) stepping 2
    microcode 0xA201213
  Topology cpus 1x dies 1 clusters 1 cores 6 threads  tpc 2 smt enabled cache L1 384 KiB
    desc d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2 3 MiB desc 6x512 KiB L3 32 MiB desc 1x32 MiB
  Speed (MHz) avg 3592 min/max 566/4471 boost enabled base/boost 3500/4450 scaling
    driver amd-pstate-epp governor powersave volts 1.1 V ext-clock 100 MHz cores 1 3592 2 3592 3 3592
    4 3592 5 3592 6 3592 7 3592 8 3592 9 3592 10 3592 11 3592 12 3592 bogomips 84004
  Flags 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bpext cat_l3
    cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc
    cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de debug_swap decodeassists erms
    extapic extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt ht hw_pstate ibpb
    ibrs ibs invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr
    mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt nrip_save nx ospke osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter
    pclmulqdq pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni popcnt pse pse36
    rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse
    sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale
    umip user_shstk v_spec_ctrl v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall vpclmulqdq
    wbnoinvd wdt x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves xtopology
  Vulnerabilities
  Type gather_data_sampling status Not affected
  Type ghostwrite status Not affected
  Type indirect_target_selection status Not affected
  Type itlb_multihit status Not affected
  Type l1tf status Not affected
  Type mds status Not affected
  Type meltdown status Not affected
  Type mmio_stale_data status Not affected
  Type old_microcode status Not affected
  Type reg_file_data_sampling status Not affected
  Type retbleed status Not affected
  Type spec_rstack_overflow mitigation Safe RET
  Type spec_store_bypass mitigation Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
  Type spectre_v1 mitigation usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type spectre_v2 mitigation Retpolines; IBPB: conditional; IBRS_FW; STIBP: always-on; RSB
    filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
  Type srbds status Not affected
  Type tsa mitigation Clear CPU buffers
  Type tsx_async_abort status Not affected
  Type vmscape mitigation IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
  Device-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21 [Radeon RX 6800/6800 XT / 6900 XT]
    vendor Sapphire TOXIC driver amdgpu v kernel arch RDNA-2 code Navi-2x process TSMC n7 (7nm)
    built 2020-22 pcie gen 4 speed 16 GT/s lanes 16 ports active HDMI-A-1 empty DP-1, DP-2, DP-3,
    Writeback-1 bus-ID 0d:00.0 chip-ID 1002:73bf class-ID 0300
  Device-2 Razer USA Kiyo Pro driver snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type USB rev 3.2 speed 5 Gb/s lanes 1
    mode 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID 4-3:2 chip-ID 1532:0e05 class-ID 0102
  Display server X.org v 1.21.1.21 with Xwayland v 24.1.9 compositor kwin_wayland driver X
    loaded amdgpu unloaded modesetting,radeon alternate fbdev,vesa dri radeonsi gpu amdgpu
    display-ID :1
  Monitor-1 HDMI-A-1 model LG (GoldStar) ULTRAWIDE serial <filter> built 2015 res 2560x1080
    dpi 81 gamma 1.2 chroma red x 0.651 y 0.333 green x 0.306 y 0.631 blue x 0.149 y 0.059 white
    x 0.314 y 0.329 size 798x334mm (31.42x13.15") diag 869mm (34.2") modes 2560x1080, 1920x1080,
    1680x1050, 1600x900, 1280x1024, 1152x864, 1280x720, 1024x768, 800x600, 720x576, 720x480,
    640x480, 720x400
  API EGL v 1.5 hw drv amd radeonsi platforms device 0 drv radeonsi device 1 drv swrast gbm
    drv radeonsi surfaceless drv radeonsi inactive wayland,x11
  API OpenGL v 4.6 compat-v 4.5 vendor mesa v 25.3.1-arch1.2 note incomplete (EGL sourced)
    renderer AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT (radeonsi navi21 LLVM 21.1.6 DRM 3.64 6.18.0-1-MANJARO), llvmpipe
    (LLVM 21.1.6 256 bits)
  API Vulkan Message No Vulkan data available.
  Info Tools api clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo de kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor
    gpu radeontop wl wayland-info x11 xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Navi 21/23 HDMI/DP Audio driver snd_hda_intel v kernel
    pcie gen 4 speed 16 GT/s lanes 16 bus-ID 0d:00.1 chip-ID 1002:ab28 class-ID 0403
  Device-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor ASUSTeK
    driver snd_hda_intel v kernel pcie gen 4 speed 16 GT/s lanes 16 bus-ID 0f:00.4 chip-ID 1022:1487
    class-ID 0403
  Device-3 XMOS usb audio driver snd-usb-audio type USB rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s lanes 1 mode 2.0
    bus-ID 3-6:5 chip-ID 20b1:000a class-ID fe01
  Device-4 Razer USA Kiyo Pro driver snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type USB rev 3.2 speed 5 Gb/s lanes 1
    mode 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID 4-3:2 chip-ID 1532:0e05 class-ID 0102
  API ALSA v k6.18.0-1-MANJARO status kernel-api with aoss type oss-emulator
    tools alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
  Server-1 sndiod v N/A status off tools aucat,midicat,sndioctl
  Server-2 JACK v 1.9.22 status off tools N/A
  Server-3 PipeWire v 1.4.9 status n/a (root, process) with 1 pipewire-pulse status active
    2 wireplumber status active 3 pipewire-alsa type plugin tools pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
  Device-1 Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor ASUSTeK driver r8169 v kernel pcie gen 2 speed 5 GT/s
    lanes 1 port e000 bus-ID 05:00.0 chip-ID 10ec:8125 class-ID 0200
  IF enp5s0 state up speed 2500 Mbps duplex full mac <filter>
  IP v6 <filter> type noprefixroute scope link
  Device-2 Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor ASUSTeK driver igb v kernel pcie gen 1
    speed 2.5 GT/s lanes 1 port d000 bus-ID 06:00.0 chip-ID 8086:1539 class-ID 0200
  IF enp6s0 state down mac <filter>
  Device-3 Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver iwlwifi v kernel pcie gen 2 speed 5 GT/s lanes 1
    bus-ID 07:00.0 chip-ID 8086:2723 class-ID 0280
  IF wlp7s0 state down mac <filter>
  Info services NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
  WAN IP No WAN IP found. Connected to web? SSL issues? Try enabling dig
Bluetooth:
  Device-1 Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver btusb v 0.8 type USB rev 2.0 speed 12 Mb/s lanes 1 mode 1.1
    bus-ID 1-6:4 chip-ID 8087:0029 class-ID e001
  Report rfkill ID hci0 rfk-id 0 state up address see --recommends
Logical:
  Message No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage total 1.17 TiB used 110.2 GiB (9.2%)
  ID-1 /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min 259:0 vendor Gigabyte model GP-AG41TB size 931.51 GiB block-size
    physical 512 B logical 512 B speed 63.2 Gb/s lanes 4 tech SSD serial <filter> fw-rev EGFM13.0
    temp 40.9 C
  SMART yes health PASSED on 2y 146d 1h cycles 1,807 read-units 46,217,591 [23.6 TB]
    written-units 45,280,504 [23.1 TB]
  ID-2 /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min 259:2 model 256GB NVMe SSD size 238.47 GiB block-size physical 512 B
    logical 512 B speed 31.6 Gb/s lanes 4 tech SSD serial <filter> fw-rev AP005PI0 temp 17.9 C
  SMART yes health PASSED on 2y 16d 1h cycles 1,809 read-units 40,706,704 [20.8 TB]
    written-units 53,469,131 [27.3 TB]
  ID-3 /dev/sda maj-min 8:0 vendor Kingston model DataTraveler 3.0 size 28.82 GiB block-size
    physical 512 B logical 512 B type USB rev 3.2 spd 5 Gb/s lanes 1 mode 3.2 gen-1x1 tech N/A
    serial <filter>
  SMART Message Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
  Message No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1 / raw-size 238.17 GiB size 233.37 GiB (97.99%) used 110.2 GiB (47.2%) fs ext4
    block-size 4096 B dev /dev/dm-0 maj-min 253:0 mapped luks-02db1f6a-9578-4cd5-be9e-97a2fc3bb1a3
    label N/A uuid ac9981da-f704-479c-ab21-1c31a29664ad
  ID-2 /boot/efi raw-size 300 MiB size 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used 568 KiB (0.2%) fs vfat
    block-size 512 B dev /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min 259:3 label N/A uuid 7DF3-8C09
Swap:
  Alert No swap data was found.
Unmounted:
  ID-1 /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min 259:1 size 931.51 GiB fs ext4 label N/A
    uuid 65e3e02a-889c-4a89-af73-1e1918b632f9
  ID-2 /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min 259:4 size 238.17 GiB fs N/A label N/A
    uuid 02db1f6a-9578-4cd5-be9e-97a2fc3bb1a3
  ID-3 /dev/sda1 maj-min 8:1 size 5.25 GiB fs N/A label MANJARO_KDE_251PRE1
    uuid 2025-12-08-16-47-40-00
  ID-4 /dev/sda2 maj-min 8:2 size 4 MiB fs N/A label MISO_EFI uuid D453-59DC
USB:
  Hub-1 1-0:1 info hi-speed hub with single TT ports 6 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes 1
    mode 2.0 chip-ID 1d6b:0002 class-ID 0900
  Device-1 1-1:2 info Yubicom Yubikey 4/5 U2F type HID driver hid-generic,usbhid interfaces 1
    rev 2.0 speed 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 1.1 power 30mA chip-ID 1050:0402 class-ID 0300
  Hub-2 1-5:3 info Genesys Logic Hub ports 4 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 2.0
    power 100mA chip-ID 05e3:0610 class-ID 0900
  Device-1 1-5.1:5 info Laview Mionix NAOS 8200 [STM32F103 MCU] type mouse,HID
    driver hid-generic,usbhid interfaces 2 rev 2.0 speed 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 1.1
    power 200mA chip-ID 22d4:1301 class-ID 0300
  Device-2 1-5.2:6 info Valve Wireless Steam Controller type keyboard,HID driver hid-steam,usbhid
    interfaces 5 rev 2.0 speed 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 1.1 power 100mA chip-ID 28de:1142
    class-ID 0300
  Device-3 1-5.3:7 info ASUSTek AURA LED Controller type HID driver hid-generic,usbhid
    interfaces 2 rev 2.0 speed 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 1.1 power 16mA chip-ID 0b05:18f3
    class-ID 0300 serial <filter>
  Device-4 1-6:4 info Intel AX200 Bluetooth type bluetooth driver btusb interfaces 2 rev 2.0
    speed 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 1.1 power 100mA chip-ID 8087:0029 class-ID e001
  Hub-3 2-0:1 info super-speed hub ports 4 rev 3.1 speed 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes 1
    mode 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID 1d6b:0003 class-ID 0900
  Hub-4 3-0:1 info hi-speed hub with single TT ports 6 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
    lanes 1 mode 2.0 chip-ID 1d6b:0002 class-ID 0900
  Device-1 3-1:2 info Atmel EasyAVR Multimedia Keyboard v2.03.01 type keyboard,mouse,HID
    driver hid-generic,usbhid interfaces 3 rev 2.0 speed 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 1.1
    power 100mA chip-ID 03eb:20ff class-ID 0300
  Hub-5 3-2:3 info ASMedia ASM1074 High-Speed hub ports 4 rev 2.1 speed 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
    lanes 1 mode 2.0 power 100mA chip-ID 174c:2074 class-ID 0900
  Device-1 3-4:4 info 8BitDo Retro 108 Keyboard type mouse,keyboard driver hid-generic,usbhid
    interfaces 3 rev 1.1 speed 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 1.1 power 200mA chip-ID 2dc8:5209
    class-ID 0301
  Device-2 3-6:5 info XMOS usb audio type audio driver snd-usb-audio interfaces 3 rev 2.0
    speed 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 2.0 chip-ID 20b1:000a class-ID fe01
  Hub-6 4-0:1 info super-speed hub ports 4 rev 3.1 speed 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes 1
    mode 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID 1d6b:0003 class-ID 0900
  Hub-7 4-2:3 info ASMedia ASM1074 SuperSpeed hub ports 4 rev 3.0 speed 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s)
    lanes 1 mode 3.2 gen-1x1 power 8mA chip-ID 174c:3074 class-ID 0900
  Device-1 4-2.2:4 info Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3/G4/SE9 G2/50 Kyson type mass storage
    driver usb-storage interfaces 1 rev 3.2 speed 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 3.2 gen-1x1
    power 296mA chip-ID 0951:1666 class-ID 0806 serial <filter>
  Device-2 4-3:2 info Razer USA Kiyo Pro type video,audio driver snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo
    interfaces 4 rev 3.2 speed 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes 1 mode 3.2 gen-1x1 power 896mA
    chip-ID 1532:0e05 class-ID 0102
  Hub-8 5-0:1 info hi-speed hub with single TT ports 4 rev 2.0 speed 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s)
    lanes 1 mode 2.0 chip-ID 1d6b:0002 class-ID 0900
  Hub-9 6-0:1 info super-speed hub ports 4 rev 3.1 speed 10 Gb/s (1.16 GiB/s) lanes 1
    mode 3.2 gen-2x1 chip-ID 1d6b:0003 class-ID 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures cpu 35.1 C mobo N/A gpu amdgpu temp 40.0 C mem 36.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm) N/A gpu amdgpu fan 0
Repos:
  Packages pm pacman pkgs 1893 libs 443 tools pamac
  Active pacman repo servers in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
    1 https: //mirror.alwyzon.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    2 https: //ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    3 https: //mirrors.cicku.me/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    4 https: //mirror.datacenter.by/pub/mirrors/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    5 https: //edgeuno-bog2.mm.fcix.net/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
    6 https: //quantum-mirror.hu/mirrors/pub/manjaro/stable/$repo/$arch
Processes:
  CPU top 5 of 368
  1 cpu 100% command ps pid 3959 mem 3.85 MiB (0.0%)
  2 cpu 5.3% command plasmashell pid 1848 mem 509.4 MiB (1.5%)
  3 cpu 4.2% command kwin_wayland pid 1648 mem 321.5 MiB (1.0%)
  4 cpu 1.4% command zsh pid 3606 mem 9.01 MiB (0.0%)
  5 cpu 1.1% command gpg-agent pid 901 mem 4.42 MiB (0.0%)
  Memory top 5 of 368
  1 mem 509.4 MiB (1.5%) command plasmashell pid 1848 cpu 5.3%
  2 mem 321.5 MiB (1.0%) command kwin_wayland pid 1648 cpu 4.2%
  3 mem 164.6 MiB (0.5%) command thumbnail.so started-by kioworker pid 3388 cpu 0.7%
  4 mem 155.7 MiB (0.4%) command konsole pid 3585 cpu 0.4%
  5 mem 144.0 MiB (0.4%) command Xorg pid 1542 cpu 0.4%
Info:
  Processes 368 Power uptime 2m states freeze,mem,disk suspend deep avail s2idle wakeups 0
    hibernate platform avail shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image .43 GiB
    services org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init systemd v 258
    default graphical tool systemctl
  Compilers clang 21.1.6 gcc 15.2.1 Client systemd inxi 3.3.40

# cat /etc/fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may
# be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices that works even if
# disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system>             <mount point>  <type>  <options>  <dump>  <pass>
UUID=7DF3-8C09                            /boot/efi      vfat    umask=0077 0 2
/dev/mapper/luks-02db1f6a-9578-4cd5-be9e-97a2fc3bb1a3 /              ext4    defaults,noatime 0 1
tmpfs                                     /tmp           tmpfs   defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
/dev/nvme0n1p1                                          /media/nvme_0          ext4   defaults     0 0

# fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: GIGABYTE GP-AG41TB                      
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: C82A86AF-8E97-BF4E-A76F-A522D5BB948D

Device         Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1  2048 1953523711 1953521664 931.5G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/nvme1n1: 238.47 GiB, 256060514304 bytes, 500118192 sectors
Disk model: 256GB NVMe SSD                          
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: A5FC521A-05DE-42E6-9EC4-15CFFBACDC7F

Device          Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme1n1p1   4096    618495    614400   300M EFI System
/dev/nvme1n1p2 618496 500103449 499484954 238.2G Linux filesystem

Disk /dev/sda: 28.82 GiB, 30943995904 bytes, 60437492 sectors
Disk model: DataTraveler 3.0
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Device     Boot    Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *          64 11014187 11014124  5.3G  0 Empty
/dev/sda2       11014188 11022379     8192    4M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Disk /dev/loop0: 40.23 MiB, 42180608 bytes, 82384 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop1: 2.16 GiB, 2324520960 bytes, 4540080 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop2: 1.89 GiB, 2029875200 bytes, 3964600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/loop3: 968.82 MiB, 1015881728 bytes, 1984144 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/luks-02db1f6a-9578-4cd5-be9e-97a2fc3bb1a3: 238.17 GiB, 255734199296 bytes, 499480858 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

# gparted -l:

Running in chroot, ignoring command 'show'
Authorization required, but no authorization protocol specified

(gpartedbin:186): Gtk-WARNING **: 20:03:14.871: cannot open display: :1
[manjaro /]# blkid
/dev/loop1: BLOCK_SIZE="262144" TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="65e3e02a-889c-4a89-af73-1e1918b632f9" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="b83c9341-aae4-c74e-b31c-f3c092883efa"
/dev/loop2: BLOCK_SIZE="262144" TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop0: BLOCK_SIZE="262144" TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/mapper/luks-02db1f6a-9578-4cd5-be9e-97a2fc3bb1a3: UUID="ac9981da-f704-479c-ab21-1c31a29664ad" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/nvme1n1p2: UUID="02db1f6a-9578-4cd5-be9e-97a2fc3bb1a3" TYPE="crypto_LUKS" PARTLABEL="root" PARTUUID="11afab67-b9da-4e15-a33a-6ce0b3fcf918"
/dev/nvme1n1p1: UUID="7DF3-8C09" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTUUID="45fb5210-396d-46f9-ab9f-7752d771ec50"
/dev/sda2: SEC_TYPE="msdos" LABEL_FATBOOT="MISO_EFI" LABEL="MISO_EFI" UUID="D453-59DC" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/sda1: BLOCK_SIZE="2048" UUID="2025-12-08-16-47-40-00" LABEL="MANJARO_KDE_251PRE1" TYPE="iso9660"
/dev/loop3: BLOCK_SIZE="262144" TYPE="squashfs"

I hope its ok being posted like this, dont see an option to just attach txt file.

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This is the correct way to post Terminal output. :ok_hand:

However, from within chroot, you’d be better using inxi -zv8c0 as this avoids all those "12"s.
(I had skim-read the previous post). :wink:

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I have not found something wrong but if the old set of hooks work for you I would stick to them, they are still supported even if no longer being the default standard.

Why are you using pacman-static for updating?

How exactly did you merge your old mkinitcpio.conf with mkinitcpio.conf.pacnew? It sounds a little like you just copied over the pacnew version without comparison - which is usually not a good idea. Have there been any other settings in the old conf file?

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Re. pacman-static I somehow missed that; appropriate for within a chroot environment, though.

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In your case, it should be… :backhand_index_pointing_down:

HOOKS=(base systemd keyboard autodetect microcode kms modconf sd-vconsole block sd-encrypt filesystems fsck)

Make sure you also have… :backhand_index_pointing_down:

FILES=(/crypto_keyfile.bin)

… higher up in the file. Then rebuild your initramfs. :backhand_index_pointing_down:

sudo mkinitcpio -P
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I’m glad I can still use ‘the old way’ but I don’t exactly want to waste time, and find out how to get ‘the new way’ working, while ‘the old way’ is still supported and have time to navigate around.

Long standing issue for which I never found a solution, when performing full system upgrades. It often[if not always] would just ‘crash’ mid update, while still updating in the background but with no way of knowing if and when it finished and if it was successful. Ended up with broken system few times[luckily saved with chroot and rerunning update] but after moving to pacman-static all the system updates have been problem free[at least as far as the update process goes].

pacnew-checker pops up with meld and then I go over the differences. Only parts I copy over are comments and everything else is picked out more individually, like HOOKS here. Thats also why I’ve made backup of my HOOKS as comment.

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Just tried it, same result as other attempts. Unbootable in same way.

I was really hoping it would be it but sadly did not work.

This was present previously and now too, never had FILES be empty.

Did so and update-grub and after reboot, only chroot could help.

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What about

MODULES=
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MODULES=()

And just in case, as its the only other thing not discussed and not a comment

BINARIES=()