type o[root@EndeavourOS liveuser]# sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p10 /mnt
[root@EndeavourOS liveuser]# sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p9 /mnt/efi
[root@EndeavourOS liveuser]# sudo arch-chroot /mnt
mount: /mnt/tmp: mount point does not exist.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.
==> ERROR: failed to setup chroot /mnt
[root@EndeavourOS liveuser]# ls -al /mnt
total 588
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Apr 10 19:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 100 Apr 12 06:58 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 31 20:51 bin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 7 00:02 boot
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 02:11 dev
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 efi
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 24 02:29 home
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 31 20:51 lib -> usr/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 31 20:51 lib64 -> usr/lib
drwx------ 3654 root root 544768 Mar 24 02:11 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 31 20:51 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 7 00:05 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 02:11 proc
drwxr-x--- 8 root root 4096 Mar 29 03:20 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 02:11 run
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 31 20:51 sbin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 24 02:22 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 24 02:11 sys
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Apr 7 00:05 usr
drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Apr 10 18:58 var
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Run sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp
Then again:sudo arch-chroot /mnt
[root@EndeavourOS liveuser]# sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp
[root@EndeavourOS liveuser]# sudo arch-chroot /mnt
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I have to admit that this is getting a bit over my head.
Your system looks to be broken in a way that I feel I am not able to troubleshoot further.
If no other suggestions comes in from other users, you might be better off backing up your personal data under your home directory plus .connfig folder and also .mozilla if you use Firefox and reinstall the system.
can you possibly translate these commands to arch commands? this is from ask ubuntu. seems i can potentially install that package for libreadline.so.8
The file you need, /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.7 is provided by the package libreadline7, not by any version of libreadline-dev. Thereās no such package as libreadline7-dev in any Ubuntu distribution.
Since you have libreadline.so.6 and its friends, youāre probably using Ubuntu 16.04 or 14.04. The libreadline7 package is available in Ubuntu 18.04. So, the straightforward answer here is that you can get it by upgrading to or installing 18.04. To check, youād then run
apt policy libreadline7
and if itās not installed, run
sudo apt update
sudo apt install libreadline7
Thereās a really dirty hack (not recommended, but not very dangerous) you could try if you just want to get past this step to see if youāre going to hit another issue before you commit to upgrading, or you really canāt upgrade right now. This is to make a symlink pointing to the older version of the library, so that the program thinks itās using libreadline.so.7 and is actually using libreadline.so.6:
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.6 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.7
This might possibly make the program run. But it might also crash mysteriously without any meaningful error messages. If you leave the symlink like this, other programs you install from third party sources might also fail to report the missing dependency and crash mysteriously. You might forget what you did and wonder what is wrong with your silly system, so itās better only to try things like this for testing. You can always just delete the symlink libreadline.so.7 to get back where you started.
Iām sorry. I have no idea what that shared library is for and how to fix it.
would you know how to translate those commands from ubuntu to arch, so that i may try them? at this point i might as well try that dirty hack and see what happens before i reinstall eos tomorrowā¦ i just dont know how theyre entered in eos. for example what command in arch is this apt in ubuntu?
The only thing I can think of, if that file is missing is that to download the package that provides it, extract it. Locate the file and copy it to its proper location in your installed system.
This might be a long shot but it is the best I got.
This wonāt assure either that the chroot issue may be solved. Could be chasing down the rabbit hole.
Iām afraid, Iām going to log out. Perhaps some one could pick up from here. Good luck!
Package readline should be installed by default.
Just guessing that it may be corrupted, so reinstalling readline might help. But that might not be the only corrupted packageā¦
How could OP do that when attempting to arch-chroot fails and throws the error about that missing library?
Not sure if pacman --sysroot /mnt from the Live USB can do that either since it needs to set up a chroot as well.
āsysroot
Specify an alternative system root. Pacman will chroot and chdir into the system root prior to running. This allows mounted guest systems to be properly operated on.
Does mounting work? Then copying package file might workā¦
Edit: typo: file ā files
Doesnāt this have to have /boot in the line somewhere? 
No, on EnOS with systemd-boot, ESP gets mounted at /efi by default.
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Oh ā¦wasnāt thinking systemd-boot. Iām just not used to that. Iām more of a grub user.
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Iām really not sure what caused all this mess. I think when I had to reinstall windows, it sabotaged EOS like those dimwits probably programmed it to do. I have no idea where to find this shared package library or install it in the correct directory. If you can direct me on the steps Iāll give it a shot, otherwise Iāll resort to reinstalling it. Thanks!
Thank you so much for helping out last night. I learned a lot in the process on how to diagnose issues better. Weāll see if the guys here have a path to installing this package, either way reinstalling EOS wonāt be too much of a big deal.
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I just had a look at this. libreadline.so.8 is a link to libreadline.so.8.2.
We could try a similar thing like what you posted from AskUbuntu.
We might get lucky if that is the only broken link/thing.
In the live session:
sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p10 /mnt
sudo ln -s /mnt/usr/lib/libreadline.so.8.2 /mnt/usr/lib/libreadline.so.8
sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p9 /mnt/efi
sudo arch-chroot /mnt
IF (read BIG IF) this succeeds and nothing else is broken then
Crossing fingers!
This is crazy but the file exists!?
[admin@A515-54 ~]$ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p10 /mnt
[sudo] password for admin:
[admin@A515-54 ~]$ sudo ln -s /mnt/usr/lib/libreadline.so.8.2 /mnt/usr/lib/libreadline.so.8
ln: failed to create symbolic link '/mnt/usr/lib/libreadline.so.8': File exists
Iām speechless 
I have other EOS DEās, maybe itās overlapping with working DEās? Iām compiling something right now but can unmount everything afterwards, then try again. Unless thereās a way to mod the command to mount the libread specifically to partition 10ās directory?