Dracut bugs when I boot(Grub)

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Whenever I boot, I get this for a while, before it switches to ‘too few args’. It eventually lets me into the emergency terminal, and when I cat the offending file, it also just says ‘too few args‘. Here is an image, I will answer any questions.

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I have never ever had any Dracut bugs when booting using grub. Was the system up to date? Maybe try sudo dracut-rebuild

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please post the output of this command:

pacman -Q | grep dracut

It should read
dracut-108_eos-1

Pudge

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I got

dracut 108_eos-1
eos-dracut 1.7-1
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It is, and this command had no effect on the issue

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Do you mean the contents of the file are literally the words “too few args”? I guess that would explain the error line 1: too: command not found.

Is there anything else in the file? If not, I would guess there was an error of some kind when it was created.

See if a package owns that file.

pacman -Qo /path/to/file

If something owns it, perhaps you can delete that file or move it to backup and reinstall the package.

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This file only exists during boot, and I can only find it from the emergency shell.

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In what context did you run this command? Most likely you will need to set up a chroot from the live environment before you run it.

https://discovery.endeavouros.com/system-rescue/arch-chroot/

If you can, sign in to the forum from the live environment and paste the output of the command into the thread so we can see what is happening.

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ah, alright

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You have two versions of dracut installed. Try deleting eos-dracut 1.7-1

@dalto correct me if I am wrong on this. If still not working install
kernel-install-for-dracut ?

Pudge

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Those are different, you need both of those with grub.

You shouldn’t remove either.

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I am confused. Maybe it’s old age.
Is this different from systemd boot versus grub?

Would systemd boot only require dracut 108_eos-1?

Thanks for your assistance.

Pudge

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Yes, systemd-boot requires kernel-install-for-dracut and other bootloaders require eos-dracut

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Back to the original issue, @wyatt things like this are usually caused by one of a couple of issues:

  • Corrupt files on the source system when the initrd is built
  • A partial update is causing things to be out of sync(Either caused by holding things back in /etc/pacman.conf or a partially updated mirror)

I would chroot into the system, validate you don’t have anything in holdPkg and then so an update and run dracut-rebuild

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