System not booting after update

[Chris_H]

Hello,
I installed Manjaro a few weeks back, after using Debian based distros for years.
It worked perfectly till I recently installed updates. After that boot fails with the messages in the screenshot.
Since I reinstalled it twice. It always booted up fine at first, then I installed updates and afterwards it fails to boot.

Link to screenshot: https:// ibb. co/NL5CLCG
(Sorry, I could neither attach the picture directly nor enter the normal link)

Any idea what the problem is?

Thanks in advance
Christian

[brahma]

do you use btrfs? if yes, it looks like this issue:

Cinnamon Flash usb stops after grub , after most recent update ( today morning)

I have installed Cinnamon Manjaro 64bit two or three years ago on an 500GB SSD Sandisk, with a AMD Cpu , a NVIDIA gpu, with 16 GB ram. This flash us has been used on other pc and has anlways worked. Today, after a suffesfull update with pamac GUI , i have reset and, after going through the grub menu, after 3 or 4 seconds. I obtain a shell like this [20230331_140419] I point out that I have other distros derived from arch that these days have presented the same problem; moreover this distro , …

and downgrading mkinitcpio helps…

[Chris_H]

Only for the home partition. Root is ext4.

[brahma]

so try downgrading the mkinitcpio… chroot:
manjaro-chroot -a
nstall downgrade:
pacman -S downgrade
downgrade mkinitcpio:

env SKIP_AUTOSNAP=1 DOWNGRADE_FROM_ALA=1 downgrade mkinitcpio

update it:
mkinitcpio -P && update-grub
reboot, and see if it helped… if yes blacklist mkinitcpio from updating, until its fixed:
edit /etc/pacman.conf
and add:

IgnorePkg = mkinitcpio

[Chris_H]

Thanks for your help.
Seems it was mkinitcpio.
Guess inwill keep it blacklisted for a while.