I’ve been using Endeavour OS for the past year, while working with the Ubuntu dist. (server) at my work for over 4 years. So I’ve gained some familiarity with Linux, while I’m still very much learning. So please, correct me where i’m wrong.
About two weeks ago I’ve updated my system with the usual:
sudo pacman -Syu
No strange outputs, I did a reboot, bobs your uncle.
Yesterday I did the same, but ran in to some booting issues. I’ve spend an entire day trying to fix it, from BIOS update to regenerating loader files. It did not boot past the ‘ASUS‘ logo, what so ever. I’ve arch-chroot’ed into my OS partition, ran updates and all, but nothing worked. I even downgraded the linux kernel and headers. journalctl -b-1 didn’t show any sign of an attempt trying to boot, so that was also a dead end for me. I’ve also messed around with nvidia-dkms, but that also didn’t change anything. It was (kinda) clear that it had something to do with the kernel files, but I couldn’t get it fixed. After many many reboots while following differend tutorials I decided to reinstall Endeavour OS.
After doing the same steps as before:
sudo pacman -Syu
I get no major error’s or such, and the update seemed to have finished. I do a reboot, and the same issues occure, again…
Anyone else experiencing the same issues with latest updates? Am I not being causious enough with the -Syu command maybe?
My recommendation was based on several reported cases here in the forums about similar issue.
If that is not the problem here, I am not sure if I can be of much more help to you.
If the issue has arisen after an update, I would personally revert the system to a date before. it’s difficult to say how many days since i don’t know about your update schedule.
If other users are experiencing the same issues, I think there might be a fix on the way.
Too bad I’ve already reinstalled my OS, so a revert wont do much for me anymore.
Also, I was looking for an answer on my questions at the bottom of my post. Is there something to prevent these kind of changes to be made? Or is it just experiencing and addapting to the current package versions? I know that that’s Arch/Endeavour OS in a nuttshell, but still, is there a place that I can check before updating?
Needless to say that we need always a viable backup strategy for the worse case scenarios.
There are those who prefer to install the system on Btrfs filesystem for its capability to snapshot the system and revert.
Otherwise, when it comes to pacman -Syu, there is not much one could do than letting it run for having an updated system.
You could always check with the command checkupdates to get a list of the repository packages that will be updated before actually running the pacman. You could then check on the Archlinux’ frontpage or here to see if any reports have been made regarding a “bad apple”. Even though rarely, there are occasions that some find their way into the basket.