Update crashed - pacman corrupt

[andreas85]

May be pacman-static helps

core/pacman-static 6.0.2-3
    Statically-compiled pacman (to fix or install systems without libc)

How to boot from USB into live Manjaro (for repair):

How to boot into my system from usb?

Hi newbi question my desktop is XFCE my pc is 64bit 60gig hardrive. I did a recent up date and now manjaro won’t boot up. I get a message saying I need to have a kernel installed first. I’ve tried advanced option but even the fallback won’t boot. I did some research that it’s possible to recover my installed system by chroot using usb but not really sure what to do after I get the message below. In the terminal I typed “manjaro-chroot -a” below is the message I got. “Mounting (ManjaroLinux) …

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@matkoh

After that, I found, that a link (/var/cache/pacman → /mnt/linux2root/var/cache/pacman) is deleted during the update. I created this link weeks before because of low disk space on the / partition.

Instead of a link you could do a mount