Initramfs unpacking failed: ZSTD-compressed data is corrupt

Hi, i have really weird issue. On cold boot i have kernel panic with this, but it is only first two sentences. After trying to boot it again (5 times) it booted like nothing happened. I did journal ctl but found nothing.

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Are you using systemd-boot or grub as boot- manager/loader?

dracut or mkinitcpio for generating the initramfs?

I guess you would need to regenerate your initramfs but the “how-to” depends on the answers to the questions above.

I use dracut and systemd-boot

Thanks for the reply!

To regenerate your initramfs you would just need to run:

sudo reinstall-kernels

Hopefully this will resolve the issue.

Same result.

If regenerating initramfs didn’t help, this could be due to some hardware issues.

I haven’t had time to look into it further but you could perhaps do some research on the error message while waiting for other users more familiar with such issues to join in.

It seems like ram problem, but i bought new ram like month ago. Anyways thank you for helping me

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Not only initramfs was corrupted. You would probably have other corrupted data due to this damaged RAM if you are using Ext4 without realizing it. Ext4 does not care about the corrupted data by default.

Check your frequently changed data and installed/updated packages from the time you used the defective RAM until today to see if the data is ok. This is up to you.

Data is ok, just initramfs behaves strangely