Permanently stuck at the emergency state after updating with yay -Syu

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @LOLYOU, and welcome!

From what I rather quickly gather from your post is that this happened on reboot after updating, correct?

This leads me to suspect it has something to do with a missing kernel. Do you know what filesystem you use? If not BTRFS, You’ll do good to follow these instructions and enter a chroot environment, if you do use BTRFS, see below the instructions for links on how to do it.

How to chroot

1. Ensure you’ve got a relatively new ISO or at least one with a still supported LTS kernel.

2. Write/copy/dd the ISO to a USB thumb drive.

3. When done, boot with the above mentioned USB thumb drive into the live environment.

4. Once booted, open a terminal and enter the following command to enter the chroot environment:

manjaro-chroot -a

5. If you have more than one Linux installation, select the correct one to use from the list provided.

When done, you should now be in the chroot environment.

But, be careful, as you’re now in an actual root environment on your computer, so any changes you make will persist after a restart.

For more:

• Manjaro wiki
• Arch wiki

Note that the above text is partially pre-prepared as a general introduction for new users. Please take the time to follow the given links and learn more.
Please also take note that these instructions will not work for/on a BTRFS file-system. For that, see:

• Chroot on BTRFS on the Arch Wiki
• Additional information regarding btrfs

From the chroot environment, please run and provide the output to:

• inxi --filter --verbosity=8
  

  Those with privacy concerns, note that when -z, or --filter is used, all personally identifiable information is filtered out from the resulting inxi output.

•  mhwd-kernel --listinstalled
  

•  pacman  -Qs linux
  

Tip

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Thereby increasing legibility thus making it easier for those trying to provide assistance.

For more information, please see:

@Fabby

On this forum here you need to have Trust Level 1 (=TL1) to be able to post screenshots and links in-line.

That’s dumb! Why is that?

Well, that’s because on our old forum we got tons of screenshots of text, links to SPAM, PR0N and other things you don’t want on a forum, so all the new users are prohibited from posting links and pics because of a few bad actors.

As I’m a moderator on the forum, I have taken the liberty of doing this for you, this time.

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Additionally

If your language isn’t English, please prepend any and all terminal commands with LC_ALL=C. For example:

LC_ALL=C bluetoothctl

This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.

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