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 u…

System update crash -- /boot wiped

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Aragorn 7 October 2024 20:49 2

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