No kernel after update

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Yes after attempting to update from 611 to 612.

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Please don’t mix “installing another kernel” with “updating the system”. There is no thing like “updating from version 6.11 to version 6.12”. Updating a kernel means going from 6.12.0 to 6.12.1 etc.

Some background info:

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I get it my semantics are wrong.

A this point how do I get out of this situation?

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I would try inside manjaro-chroot environment to use pacman instead of mhwd-kernel if it failed:

pacman -Syu linux611
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
mkinitcpio -P
exit
exit

and reboot.

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Near the end of the output from that command:

(4/6) Updating Kernel initcpios for Nvidia-DRM...
(5/6) Refreshing PackageKit...
Error connecting: Could not connect: No such file or directory
error: command failed to execute correctly
(6/6) Updating Grub-Bootmenu
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /usr/share/grub/themes/manjaro/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-6.11-x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/intel-ucode.img /boot/initramfs-6.11-x86_64.img
Found initrd fallback image: /boot/initramfs-6.11-x86_64-fallback.img
Warning: os-prober will be executed to detect other bootable partitions.
Its output will be used to detect bootable binaries on them and create new boot entries.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.  Check your device.map.
grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1.  Check your device.map.
Adding boot menu entry for UEFI Firmware Settings ...
Root filesystem isn't btrfs
If you think an error has occurred, please file a bug report at "https://github.com/Antynea/grub-btrfs"
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+/memtest.bin
Found memtest86+ EFI image: /boot/memtest86+/memtest.efi
done
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I guess it should work already. If you want to fix the error message, do it again, but remove PackageKit first:

pacman -Rs packagekit packagekit-qt5
pacman -Syu linux611
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
mkinitcpio -P
exit
exit

and reboot.

mod. edit: packagekit-qt5 added afterwards

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pacman -Rs packagekit
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing packagekit breaks dependency 'packagekit' required by packagekit-qt5
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Then remove this as well.

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Thanks everyone for all the help.

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For the future, I would recommend

that you always keep an older LTS kernel installed in addition to the kernel you are using (6.1 or 6.6 or 6.12 as soon as that works for you).

Manjaro is specifically designed so that you can keep multiple kernels. (Of course not a kernel that is EOL)

:footprints:

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