Failed update killed the system - I tried all I could find

[acca85]

I tried updating the system with pamac gui as I always do, the gui crashed, I waited some time, in system monitor I had no activity like downloads or any process called pacman o pamac so I rebooted (my mistake).
At boot it says it can’t find the kernel (I had 2 installed, the second didn’t work either) so I downloaded the new iso, burned it, booted and did
manjaro-chroot -a
[ -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck ] && rm -f /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
pacman-mirrors -f && pacman -Syyu
update-grub
exit

it said there was nothing to do, grub updated and deleted the windows entry too now showing only enter uefi settings.

Booted again live and tried again but failing.
I tried to download a new kernel with
mhwd-kernel -i linux61
and it said it could not open file var/lib/pacman/local/wine-staging-9.22-1/desc
so I told it to --ignore and it didn’t work so I deleted the dir and tried again but it didn’t work, it only wants to update v86d (don’t know what it is) from aur but it can’t (no systemd as init error).
So now I’m on my laptop, I’m booted live on the other pc but I don’t know what to do or what to search to fix this.

Any suggestiong?
TiA

[andreas85]

You may find some tipps in:

[HowTo] Recovering from an interrupted update/upgrade

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ So you couldn’t wait until the update process had completed and you went for the reset/power button, didn’t you? And now you’re getting the message that you don’t have a kernel installed. Well, you’re not the only one — we’re seeing it happen all the time. So, here’s how to fix it, you impatient n00b. If you don’t happen to have a recent Manjaro installer USB/DVD/CD handy, direct your browser to this wonderful page, download t…

@acca85

At boot it says it can’t find the kernel (I

Additionally you may need to test with

 ls -lA /boot       

what is missing.
And with

LANG=en; sudo mhwd-kernel -li

what kernels are meant to be there

Then install one additional kernel (one that you did not have before)

LANG=en;sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux612

and

LANG=en;sudo mhwd-kernel -i linux611

[acca85]

that is exacly what I did to recover the system but without success, it says there is nothing to do.

[acca85]

this is the output of

ls -lA /boot
amd -ucode.img
efi
grub
linux510-x86_64.kver.old
linux611-x86_64.kver
linux66-x86_64.kver
memtest86+

Mod edit: Please use proper formatting: [HowTo] Post command output and file content as formatted text

[Nachlese]

If
mhwd-kernel -i linuxXYZ
does not work for you in chroot
then install a kernel the other way:

for example:
pacman -S linux66
mkinitcpio -P
update-grub

exit
to exit chroot, then reboot to test

But you can already see from the output of the above commands whether you now again have a kernel and initrd.

[acca85]

Ok, I’m following the instructions. I downloaded a kernel using pacman because mhwd didn’t work.
Now I’m waiting for the system to reboot, I exited chroot, closed the prompt, and clicked reboot but it went black screen with mouse cursor…I’m giving it some time…

It booted to manjaro
Now I don’t have the boot entry for windows (not that I use it but I have it installed)
I can’t start pamac, it gives error

remote peer disconnected

[Nachlese]

@acca85

It booted to manjaro

good

@acca85

Now I don’t have the boot entry for windows (not that I use it but I have it installed)

run update-grub again
Windows wasn’t detected from within chroot - totally normal.

@acca85

I can’t start pamac, it gives error

remote peer disconnected

I have no suggestion but to use pacman instead.
Someone else might know.

[acca85]

I thank you a lot for helping me good sir.

I’ll start searching the forum for this other issue.

[Mirdarthos]

@acca85

remote peer disconnected

See this thread:

Add/Remove Software: Remote peer disconnected

I dont really know about this error … but … What happens if you launch it from the terminal? pamac-manager Furthermore we could make sure you are fully synced/updated; sudo pacman-mirrors --continent && sudo pacman -Syu

[acca85]

pacman-mirrors --continent && sudo pacman -Syu

It says there are no updates available (I’m translating) so nothing changes, I have the same output from

pacaman -Syyu

[Nachlese]

@acca85

It says there are no updates available (I’m translating)

If you ever need to post output in english so other people could understand it
and don’t want to have to translate it yourself:
prepend LANG=C

ex:
LANG=C sudo pacman -Syu

[acca85]

If I try to launch pamac from command line using

pamac-manager

I get this error:

(pamac-manager:14783): Gtk-WARNING **: 13:26:16.610: Could not load a pixbuf from icon theme.
This may indicate that pixbuf loaders or the mime database could not be found.
**
Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/status/16/image-missing.svg: Impossibile aprire il modulo «/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbuf
loader-svg.so» per il caricamento delle immagini: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so: impossibile aprire il file oggetto condiviso: File o directory non esistente (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 5)
Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:../gtk/gtk/gtkiconhelper.c:495:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/share/icons/breeze-dark/status/16/image-missing.svg: Impossibile aprire il modulo «/usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders
/libpixbufloader-svg.so» per il caricamento delle immagini: /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so: impossibile aprire il file oggetto condiviso: File o directory non esistente (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 5)
Annullato

I am trying to use LANG=C but maybe it works only for 1 line?

[Mirdarthos]

@acca85

LANG=C

That’s incorrect. Accordding to me notes it should be LC_ALL=C.

For example:

LC_ALL=C bluetoothctl

[acca85]

I reinstalled pamac using

sudo pacman -Syu libpamac pamac-cli pamac-gtk

and now it starts, icons are missing, if I start it from prompt using

pamac-manager

I get

(pamac-manager:36593): Adwaita-WARNING **: 13:41:28.649: Using GtkSettings:gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme with libadwaita is unsupported. Please use AdwStyleManager:color-scheme instead.

And then a bunch of error for every single icon the app uses.

[acca85]

I think I should stop posting in this topic since the original issue was resolved.
I’m currently trying to figure out how to reinstall the latest updates, maybe reinstalling everything that is reported to have been updated today already.

So ty gyus for helping me recovering the system.

[Nachlese]

Try reinstalling librsvg.
That seems to help -
what I understood:
the file name changed from
libpixbufloader-svg.so
to
libpixbufloader_svg.so
and some cache update wasn’t triggered
which the reinstallation will do.

sudo pacman -S --asdeps librsvg

I didn’t have problems - others had …

[acca85]

I did that end then

sudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/*

logged out and back in, now I have he icons.
Also I found the pacman log, it has the list of everything it thinks it has updated, so I will try and update/reinstall everything manually. I started with wine, suddenly it used all my ram (16gb) and all the swap file I had just in case (8gb) and the pc froze for a few minutes, then it freed the memory and started working again, so I’ll go slow.

Also I got suggested to check this, so I’ll do that.