System not booting anymore after backup deletion (timeshift related?)

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Hi @McAxolot,

I’d say the best would be to boot with a live ISO, and enter a chroot environment and from there perform a complete synchronization.

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 encironment:

manjaro-chroot -a
  1. 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.

Once in, I suggest a complete synchronization, run the following in the chroot environment:

While this command in update, it will just synchronize everything, so don’t worry about that.

pamac upgrade && pamac upgrade --aur --devel || echo -e '\033[0;91mThere was an error upgrading the system. AUR packages not upgraded.\e[0m'

This will update your system and ONLY if that was successful update any AUR packages.

a Reminder: While use of the AUR is possible, it’s neither recommended nor supported.

I recommend pamac instead of pacman, especially for newcomers as pamac was developed by Manajaro (developers) for Manjaro and just takes care of more thing than pacman.

Afterwards, copy the output and provide it here. If done successfully, it should be safe to reboot. If so, reboot, if not stay in the live ISO environment and request further assistance. The info is here, then already and there’s no need to dig for it.

If there is a problem with the reboot, please report back and let us see what’s going on.

Edit:

If that’s the case, it’s good. I don’t know how much time you have left for your thesis, just be careful then that you don’t spend too much time trying to rescue your system that could be used for that.

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