Failed to start Load Kernel Modules after changing graphics drivers

Today i reinstalled my graphics drivers. Everything worked just fine, but when i rebooted my PC it didn’t start and gave me this error.

This is the result that lsblk gives me:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0 7:0 0 146.8M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/livefs
loop1 7:1 0 1.2G 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/mhwdfs
loop2 7:2 0 1.4G 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/desktopfs
loop3 7:3 0 653.7M 1 loop /run/miso/sfs/rootfs
sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 931.5G 0 part
sdb 8:16 0 447.1G 0 disk
├─sdb1 8:17 0 300M 0 part
├─sdb2 8:18 0 438G 0 part
└─sdb3 8:19 0 8.8G 0 part
sdc 8:32 1 14.9G 0 disk
├─sdc1 8:33 1 3.5G 0 part /run/miso/bootmnt
└─sdc2 8:34 1 4M 0 part
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom

I also sadly don’t have any timeshift backups from before reinstalling the drivers. Please help me, i don’t wanna lose my files

Hi,

How did you do that exactly?

I went to hardware configuration in settings, rightclicked on my nvidia driver, and clicked reinstall Driver.
My computer hasn’t been doing that great recently, so i thought it was maybe because of an outdated driver.

If it were out of date … then it would need an update along with the rest of your system.
Just do your updates.
It sounds like maybe … you ended up in a partial-upgrade state?

In whatever case you will need to get to the running system by using possibly runlevel3 or chroot with a live usb.

It looks like you are already in a live system (judging by the miso entries)
So … if root is a regular ext4 partition you can do

manjaro-chroot -a

And continue from there.

For more info we would probably need the outputs of:

inxi -Fazy
mhwd -l -li

But we will probably be starting with a good old update, syncing mirrors first for good measure:

sudo pacman-mirrors -f
sudo pacman -Syu

So there might be just the tiniest issue :grimacing:

error: Partition / too full: 468965 blocks needed, 130825 blocks free
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

So it turns out my partition doesn’t have enough space. I have no idea how to handle this from a live system.
But, i’m still gonna give you some outputs:

Well … we can start a few places.

From the chroot…

This will clean the package cache, keeping 2 latest. Then remove cache of any uninstalled packages.

paccache -rvk2
paccache -rvuk0

This will hopefully get you a bit.
Of course … you could go looking for large directories …

du -sh /* | sort -h

It gives me this error:

error: unresolvable package conflicts detected
error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting dependencies)
:: libgedit-amtk and amtk are in conflict

From paccache ?
…that doesnt make sense. It should be removing … the cache … not installed packages.

Please include the full output, including your commands as entered.

No, i did paccache already, and then i did the pacman -Syu again, sorry, that was not very clear

Ah, gotchya.
Cannot upgrade due to conflict of this foreign package.
The other output which would give more context is missing.
I would say remove amtk (and/or whatever depends on it) …
especially as amtk is not a valid package in the repos or the AUR.

You can inspect it, including the deps:

pacman -Qi amtk

pactree will show everything relying on it:

pactree -r amtk

To remove it:

sudo pacman -Rns amtk

(again this is assuming it is the thing installed, rather than some package depending on it … I cannot know with the current outputs)

and now it has an issue with this when i upgrade:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
manjaro-gnome-settings: /etc/xdg/Kvantum/kvantum.kvconfig exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

Looks like you overwrote a package file?
We can move/back-up the file before proceeding…

sudo mv /etc/xdg/Kvantum/kvantum.kvconfig /etc/xdg/Kvantum/kvantum.kvconfig.bak

It’s super late and I’m having some difficulties anyways, see you tomorrow I’m going to sleep

i’ve made a dumb mistake. I’ve apparently not been doing this update stuff through the chroot. These are the errors i get there:

This guy saved me:
sudo pacman -Syu glibc-locales --overwrite /usr/lib/locale/*/*

That was just the most recent instruction in the update announcements.

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