So far, this is pretty much all I know, and I don’t really know if there’s much more detail I can give…
I’ve done extensive research and tried to fix it myself, however all the stuff I found out there was not helpful to my situation.
Shortly before this happened, I had just finished downloading a new game on Steam, which I played, while I let a system update (sudo pacman -Syyuu) run in the background as I do that. The update couldn’t finish, because of some conflicting files though and so it interrupted the update and stopped. I couldn’t bother with that, so I continued playing my game, intending to deal with that later. But then (this was some time later) my game froze, and I couldn’t do anything anymore, Alt+F4 didn’t help, neither Alt+Tab or anything else, so I force shutdown my computer. When I reboot after that, the issues occured. I would really appreciate someone’s help because I’ve had quite a hard time trying to research this so far, and I can’t get back into Manjaro anymore…
That shouln’t be a problem - the update is a transaction - so if the pre-validation fails - the transaction is not commited.
Don’t do that
Your incident description is not entirely correct - if your kernel gone missing after your force shutdown - then the sync process has not been cancelled before the transaction - but during the transaction - and that is the problem and a very likely explanation as to why your system froze as well.
Ok, so how do I create a “live ISO”, if I am reading correct, then a live ISO is something that I burn onto a USB stick? So I am not able to open the terminal from my GRUB screen and do chroot from there?
I already tried to do commands to fix my system from the small console I get if I press C when selecting the Manjaro kernels to boot from. But I couldn’t use most commands there.
Ok, I have made a live USB with Manjaro on it, and this is the only Terminal that I could get from there. Is this correct, or am I not allowed to boot into Manjaro from the live USB and use the terminal there (in the Desktop environment which I get there)?
From there you’ll have to enter a chroot environment using the terminal emulator you’ve got open there.
To enter a chroot environment:
Ensure you’ve got a relatively new ISO or at least one with a still supported LTS kernel. You seem to have this done.
Write/copy/dd the ISO to a USB thumb drive. And this.
When done, boot with the above mentioned USB thumb drive into the live environment. And this.
Once booted, open a terminal and enter the following command to enter the chroot environment:
manjaro-chroot -a
If you have more than one Linux installation, select the correct one to use from the list provided.
If sucessfully done, you should now be in the chroot environment.
But, be careful, as you’re now in an actualroot environment on your computer, so any changes you make will persist after a restart and can cause damage.
Once that’s done, you’ll have to sync the system again. I recommend pamac:
Thanks man, but I’ve now got the problem that “manjaro-chroot -a” mounts into the wrong directories. It goes to my second SSD, instead of my main SSD wherr my linux system is installed. Do you happen to know how I can go into the right SSD?
I believe that bit with the drive will be a bit more tricky though…
I have both Windows and Manjaro on my computer, and I split them 60/40 on my first main drive (SSD), and recently installed a second SSD, internally, so I can’t detach that from my PC… So that’s the reason why my chroot doesn’t automount to the correct place. I looked it up using 'sudo fdisk -l" though and I believe my manjaro system is installed on /dev/sdb7.
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Ah ok, I think I’m starting to remember now. Didn’t quite realize that, well now I must’ve automatically received an International/American keyboard or something which isn’t syncing up with my current keyboard. But oh well
Ok, well I typed the pamac command you suggested to me earlier, and this is how it looks like in my terminal:
sh-5.1# pamac upgrade --enable-downgrade --aur --devel
Warning: Building packages as dynamic user
Warning: Setting build directory to /var/cache/pamac
Preparing...
Synchronizing package databases...
unable to lock database
Failed to synchronize databases
https://aur.manjaro.org/packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz: Unacceptable TLS certificate
Failed to synchronize AUR database
Resolving dependencies...
Checking inter-conflicts...
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: rubygems will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-stdlib will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-bundledgems will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-bundledgems will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-bundledgems will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-bundledgems will be installed before its ruby dependency
Warning: dependency cycle detected:
Warning: ruby-bundledgems will be installed before its ruby dependency
To upgrade (77):
linux60-nvidia 520.56.06-13 (520.56.06-9) extra
make 4.3-5 (4.3-3) core
manjaro-release 22.0.0rc-1 (22.0.0pre3-1) core
manjaro-settings-manager 0.5.7-12 (0.5.7-11) extra
manjaro-settings-manager-kcm 0.5.7-12 (0.5.7-11) extra
manjaro-settings-manager-knotifier 0.5.7-12 (0.5.7-11) extra
memtest86+ 6.00-2 (6.00-1) extra
opusfile 0.12-3 (0.12-2) community
qt5-script 5.15.11-2 (5.15.11-1) extra
mixxx 2.3.3-3 (2.3.3-2) community
mobile-broadband-provider-info 20221107-1 (20220725-1) extra
ntfs-3g 2022.10.3-1 (2022.5.17-1) extra
ntp 4.2.8.p15-2 (4.2.8.p15-1) extra
okular 22.08.3-1 (22.08.2-1) extra
pkcs11-helper 1.29.0-2 (1.29.0-1) extra
openvpn 2.5.8-2 (2.5.7-1) extra
opera 92.0.4561.43-1 (92.0.4561.33-1) community
oxygen 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
packagekit 1.2.5-2 (1.2.5-1) community
pamac-cli 10.4.3-1 (10.4.2-2) extra
pamac-gtk 10.4.3-1 (10.4.2-2) extra
partitionmanager 22.08.3-1 (22.08.2-1) extra
plasma-browser-integration 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
polkit-kde-agent 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
plasma-desktop 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
ppp 2.4.9-3 (2.4.9-2) core
wpa_supplicant 2:2.10-7 (2:2.10-5) core
plasma-nm 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
pulseaudio 16.1-3 (16.1-1) extra
plasma-pa 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
plasma-systemmonitor 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
plasma-workspace-wallpapers 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
powerdevil 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
print-manager 22.08.3-1 (22.08.2-1) extra
pulseaudio-bluetooth 16.1-3 (16.1-1) extra
pulseaudio-jack 16.1-3 (16.1-1) extra
pulseaudio-lirc 16.1-3 (16.1-1) extra
pulseaudio-rtp 16.1-3 (16.1-1) extra
pulseaudio-zeroconf 16.1-3 (16.1-1) extra
python-cryptography 38.0.3-1 (38.0.1-1) extra
python-cssselect 1.2.0-1 (1.1.0-9) extra
python-dnspython 1:2.2.1-2 (1:2.2.1-1) community
python-wheel 0.38.2-1 (0.37.1-1) community
python-pip 22.3.1-1 (22.3-1) extra
python-platformdirs 2.5.3-1 (2.5.2-1) extra
python-pycurl 7.45.1-2 (7.45.1-1) extra
python-pyqt5 5.15.7-3 (5.15.7-2) extra
python-reportlab 3.6.12-1 (3.6.11-1) community
qt6-base 6.4.0-3 (6.4.0-2) extra
qbittorrent 4.4.5-2 (4.4.5-1) community
qt5-imageformats 5.15.7+kde+r5-1 (5.15.6+kde+r5-1) extra
qt5-virtualkeyboard 5.15.7-1 (5.15.6+kde+r1-1) extra
qt5-webkit 5.212.0alpha4-18 (5.212.0alpha4-17) extra
rsync 3.2.7-2 (3.2.7-1) extra
rubygems 3.3.25-1 (3.3.23-1) community
ruby-stdlib 3.0.4-20 (3.0.4-18) community
ruby-bundledgems 3.0.4-20 (3.0.4-18) community
ruby 3.0.4-20 (3.0.4-18) community
s-nail 14.9.24-2 (14.9.24-1) core
sddm-kcm 5.26.3-1 (5.26.2-1) extra
sdl12-compat 1.2.60-1 (1.2.56-1) community
webkit2gtk 2.38.2-1 (2.38.1-1) extra
shotwell 2:0.30.17-2 (2:0.30.16-2) community
skanlite 22.08.3-1 (22.08.2-1) extra
spectacle 22.08.3-1 (22.08.2-1) extra
spectre-meltdown-checker 0.45+1+gb68ebe6-1 (0.45-1) community
splix 2.0.0-18 (2.0.0-16) community
sudo 1.9.12.p1-1 (1.9.12-1) core
systemd-sysvcompat 251.8-1 (251.7-1) core
telegram-desktop 4.3.1-2 (4.2.4-1) community
thunderbird 102.5.0-1 (102.4.1-1) extra
timeshift 22.06.5+12+g92ad80c-2 (22.06.5-3) community
usbutils 015-1 (014-2) core
vpnc 1:0.5.3.r506.r204-2 (1:0.5.3.r506.r204-1) extra
xf86-input-void 1.4.2-1 (1.4.1-6) extra
xmlsec 1.2.36-2 (1.2.36-1) extra
yakuake 22.08.3-1 (22.08.2-1) extra
To install (3):
libsigc++-3.0 3.2.0-1 extra
glibmm-2.68 2.74.0-1 extra
openssl-1.1 1.1.1.s-2 core
Total installed size: 9.6 MB
Apply transaction ? [y/N]
Oh, I thought I was inside of the chroot environment…
I typed these two commands, as I saw them suggested by @linux-aarhus:
sudo mount /dev/sdb7 /mnt 127 ✘
ls ✔
Desktop Documents Downloads Music Pictures Public Templates Videos
sudo manjaro-chroot /mnt
I am confused though, I saw programs among the updates which were definitely only installed on the manjaro desktop that I’m trying to repair right now… So was that not correct?
I must be going to work now though, so I’ll be checking this forum again in a few hours, 'til then everybody…
Don’t do that - 
Tip: