Hi, I was updating my wife’s laptop (Acer Aspire 5) recently (it was way behind on updates). During the update, the system crashed: not only did pacman crash but the shell it was running in crashed and Konsole closed, and the desktop was left frozen. I have no idea what happened; it all happened …

[image] codemonkey: But why did those tools fail to run (if that’s what happened)? Should I run them manually or maybe reinstall the kernel? Im not sure they fail .. they could be overlapped by something else. We will revisit this further down. But getting the full output may help clear this …

[image] [HowTo] Recovering from an interrupted update/upgrade Tutorials Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ So you couldn’t wait until the update process had completed and you went for the reset/power button, didn’t you? smiley And now you’re getting the message that you don’…

You may wish to clear the cache first to make sure none of the packages are fragmented. sudo pacman -Scc To proceed you could use something like the following (to ensure you have a kernel) sudo pacman -Syu linux66 sudo mkinitcpio -P sudo update-grub But I suspect you may run into specific proble…

Thanks! I’ll follow those instructions. BTW, I know (think?) you were being somewhat flippant there, but, FWIW, I did not abort the update – the update aborted me!! :wink: Thanks again, ~ray

Thanks. I do know how to fix things like x exists on filesystem, so fingers crossed, I think I’ll be okay with this.

[image] codemonkey: FWIW, I did not abort the update – the update aborted me! You mention that Konsole closed. That suggests you were running the update within your graphical desktop. As you have now found out, this is a bad idea. It’s best to switch to a TTY to run any update other than the …

PS: I didn’t realize initially that you had posted the article. I thought that was you writing. So sorry for the ‘accusation’.

Hi again, Well not sure what happened. I followed the directions from the article; all seemed well and then after update-grub I checked /boot/: the grub files were there but there was no vmlinuz nor initramfs. Then I rebooted and it now just dumps me back into the BIOS. (It seems to try to boot,…

We would need some output to show what happened during install and building initramfs, etc. Maybe your /boot is mounted somewhere else? (While the vmlinuz and initram files in /boot arent owned by any package as they are created by other tools, the linux*.kver files in /boot are provided by the ke…

[image] cscs: We would need some output to show what happened during install and building initramfs, etc. I’m not sure what would be useful to share. I didn’t see any console message nor anything interesting in pacman.log. [image] cscs: Maybe your /boot is mounted somewhere else? No,…

Never heard of kernel-alive and don’t know how it got installed. I actually do have the full pacman.log (I copied it to another machine after the update). I only pasted the end here to keep the post size reasonable and thought the end might be the most important part. I just reviewed the whole th…

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