Recent Manjaro Update Froze - Attempt to manjaro-chroot fails

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I was in the middle of performing the latest update to my manjaro installation and the pacman -Syu process hung up in the middle of applying application updates. I wanted for a long time, but noticed that my system had become completely unresponsive.

I knew upon rebooting that the boot would fail. Sure enough, no kernal could be located. I found a helpful article for using manjaro-chroot to attempt to complete the interrupted update, but I’m having a problem.

My configuration is that I use a ZFS formatted NVME drive with an encrypted root partition.

Here is the drive setup:

manjaro@manjaro ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 931.51 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors
Disk model: Sabrent Rocket Q                        
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 0E732033-A74D-C54B-A391-F4164B04CCCE

Device          Start        End    Sectors   Size Type
/dev/nvme0n1p1   4096     618495     614400   300M EFI System
/dev/nvme0n1p2 618496 1953520064 1952901569 931.2G Linux filesystem

I downloaded the latest manjaro live USB and performed the following:

[manjaro@manjaro ~]$ su -
Password: 
[manjaro ~]# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/nvme0n1p2 crypt
[manjaro ~]# mount /dev/mapper/crypt /mnt
[manjaro ~]# mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi
[manjaro ~]# manjaro-chroot /mnt
chroot: failed to run command '/bin/sh': Exec format error

I have no idea why I’m getting this error. Can someone help me? I’ve been at this for a few hours now.

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Please don’t start duplicate threads. You already have a thread about this subject. :arrow_down: