I just updated my computer using
yay
and now the ethernet on my motherboard is no longer working, it just tells me
I found some other threads saying that uninstalling r8168 would help so I did that and rebooted, but it didn’t help me.
lspci | grep -i eth
I was just wondering if anyone could help because it has become a real problem not being able to use the ethernet and instead relying on my mobile hotspot
Thanks in advance
Which packages did you update? e.g. look at /var/log/pacman.log
ZXSwire3:
I219-V
Possibly a regression in the kernel driver, but would need confirmation that a kernel was updated.
Here is everything than was from today, which is when I started having issues
[2021-11-29T10:59:14-0800] [PACMAN] Running ‘pacman -S v4l-utils’
There’s a kernel update in there. Does it happen on linux-lts too?
sorry, I’m not really sure how I would know if it is doing the linux-lts as well. Would I just select the linux-lts when booting? If that is the case then yes, I am also having the same issue on linux-lts
What happened here? Why was there a missing lock file? Did pacman crash?
It will be worth trying to downgrade either of the kernels to the previous version from /var/cache/pacman/pkg to isolate the last kernel update as the cause.
I think pacman got stuck and I didn’t realize and I think I started typing in other commands so that might have been why it was being strange. Sorry to ask, but how would I go about downgrading to a previous version?
I see that r8168 package was updated also. Do you have wireless on this system also?
inxi -Na
Edit: I see you removed the r8168 package.
Yea, I was looking through the log files and saw that it was updated and when I was looking through a few other threads people were saying that it was the issue and that they just ended up removing it and it worked.
I do not. I just have the ethernet and I’m using my iphone as a hotspot over usb and bluetooth if that matters.
➜ ~ inxi -na70:8b:cd:4c:6f:56
Okay … I did see you uninstalled the r8168 package as you don’t need it anyway. You did remove it correct?
I think @jonathon wanted you to downgrade the kernels. You have to have the downgrade package installed in order to do that.
so I went over to /var/cache/pacman/pkg but I wasn’t sure which package I should downgrade and even if I did, I’m not really sure how to do that.
You have to use downgrade. Is it installed?
Edit: check
ricklinux:
Is it installed?
Yes, I just check and I do have it installed
So i think you just have to do is
downgrade linux
and then select the linux kernel you want to downgrade from the list it gives that is in cache.
Edit: Not sure i got this right?
If you look in the directory you should see files like linux and linux-lts and each of them have a version number.
Not necessarily, if the package archives are already in cache then you can just use pacman -U.
alright I just did that and I have two options from my cache, do you think I should just do the most recent one?
- 273) linux 5.15.2.arch1 1 remote 274) linux 5.15.3.arch1 1 remote- 275) linux 5.15.4.arch1 1 remote- 276) linux 5.15.4.arch1 1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg+ 277) linux 5.15.5.arch1 1 remote+ 278) linux 5.15.5.arch1 1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg
I wasn’t sure what is the right way. So if the packages exist in the cache then you just have to use the correct name with pacman -U? Correct?
Edit: I’m in the middle of an install here testing Nvidia!
