The last update messed up my system. Has anyone experienced the same issue and more importantly, how the issue could be fixed? Executing mkinitcpio manually did not help.
I’m running in the fallback mode now.
-rw------- 1 root root 33614389 Feb 8 09:24 initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rw------- 1 root root 8872134 Feb 8 09:24 initramfs-linux.img
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 4769792 Jun 8 2021 intel-ucode.img
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 10523168 Feb 7 17:10 vmlinuz-linux
[2022-02-08T07:53:07-0600] [PACMAN] Running ‘pacman -Syu’
[2022-02-08T07:53:07-0600] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists
[2022-02-08T07:53:11-0600] [PACMAN] starting full system upgrade
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] transaction started
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] upgraded device-mapper (2.03.14-2 → 2.03.15-1)
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] upgraded duf (0.8.0-1 → 0.8.1-1)
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] upgraded gdbm (1.22-1 → 1.23-1)
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] upgraded gpgme (1.16.0-3 → 1.17.0-1)
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] upgraded hwdata (0.355-1 → 0.356-1)
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] upgraded lvm2 (2.03.14-2 → 2.03.15-1)
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] transaction completed
[2022-02-08T07:53:21-0600] [ALPM] running ‘30-systemd-daemon-reload.hook’…
[2022-02-08T07:53:22-0600] [ALPM] running ‘30-systemd-udev-reload.hook’…
[2022-02-08T07:53:22-0600] [ALPM] running ‘30-systemd-update.hook’…
[2022-02-08T07:53:22-0600] [ALPM] running ‘90-mkinitcpio-install.hook’…
[2022-02-08T07:53:22-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: ‘default’
[2022-02-08T07:53:22-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2022-02-08T07:53:22-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 5.16.7-arch1-1
[2022-02-08T07:53:22-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [base]
[2022-02-08T07:53:22-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [udev]
[2022-02-08T07:53:23-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [autodetect]
[2022-02-08T07:53:23-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [modconf]
[2022-02-08T07:53:23-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [block]
[2022-02-08T07:53:24-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
[2022-02-08T07:53:24-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2022-02-08T07:53:24-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [keymap]
[2022-02-08T07:53:24-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [consolefont]
[2022-02-08T07:53:24-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: ‘fallback’
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Starting build: 5.16.7-arch1-1
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [base]
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [udev]
[2022-02-08T07:53:25-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [modconf]
[2022-02-08T07:53:26-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [block]
[2022-02-08T07:53:26-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: bfa
[2022-02-08T07:53:27-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qed
[2022-02-08T07:53:27-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla1280
[2022-02-08T07:53:27-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: qla2xxx
[2022-02-08T07:53:28-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: xhci_pci
[2022-02-08T07:53:29-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [keyboard]
[2022-02-08T07:53:31-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [keymap]
[2022-02-08T07:53:31-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [consolefont]
[2022-02-08T07:53:31-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] → Running build hook: [filesystems]
[2022-02-08T07:53:33-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2022-02-08T07:53:33-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2022-02-08T07:53:33-0600] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] ==> Image generation successful