‘You need to load the kernel first’ This was my first issue coming back after my laptop presumably ran out of batteries during an update. I did the steps in the solution presented in Boot file not found only to be given this: File var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-mirrors-5.3-1-any.pkg.tar.zst is corrup…

It is likely that you will be able to boot your real system again if you do, from while you are in chroot (manjaro-chroot -a after having booted from USB) mkinitcpio -P update-grub exit to exit chroot It’s worth a try - things might be easier to work on when the real system is up. Reason thi…

[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’…

(496/496) checking keys in keyring [######################] 100%downloading required keys…:: Import PGP key 6F120DAEC909FAD7, “Frede Hundewadt fh@manjaro.org”? [Y/n] y(496/496) checking package integrity [######################] 100%error: pacman-mirrors: signature from “Frede Hundew…

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y:: Retrieving packages… libappindicator-… 50.6 KiB 888 KiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%pacman-mirrors-5… 218.4 KiB 2.37 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%Total (2/2) 269.0 KiB 2.63 MiB/s 00:00 [######################] 100%(497/…

Please edit your post and place any code or command output within a scrollable pre-formatted text enclosure according to forum guidelines. :eyes: :point_down: ▶ [MiniHowTo] Present code or command output For the signature of Frede look at the second post of the Announcement topic. For the Overlay……

[image] jaysef: … and the result of the commands you gave me. Did you try to reboot your system after these commands? Fix your formatting - no one can read what you posted. click </> a black box will appear paste the terminal output in it

I found what you’re talking about in post 2 that claims to fix this issue. The result of the shown command is: [manjaro ~]# sudo pacman -S manjaro-keyring sudo pacman-key --populate manjaro resolving dependencies…looking for conflicting packages… Packages (1) manjaro-keyring-20251003-1 Total Instal…

So you have the key imported - or is it repeating itself - after you have used timeshift?

Using timeshift is loading a previous snapshot, yes? Attempting to do so bluescreens the laptop. I am chrooting in from a usb stick. is sudo pacman-key --populate manjaro what is meant by importing? I also removed and redownloaded the manjaro and archlinux default keys.

The keyring is important as it contains an update to the keys. My old disabled key is removed and a new key has been added. To avoid the random occasion where the pacman-mirrors package is updated before the keyring - you are advised to load the update package first. [image] jaysef: I also re…

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Teo 8 January 2026 21:03 3