[arch-general] pacman -Syu ~ 1 yr. of packages, tty1 hangs after root clean, tty2 console login OK - how to fix?

[Łukasz Michalski]

On 11.08.2020 05:25, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 8/10/20 10:10 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
>> After that many errors, why did you try rebooting without fixing things
>> first? The obvious first step is to try rerunning all of those hooks
>> using a modern pacman.
>>
>> (Do not do a year's worth of updates in one go like that, it's not
>> tested and might break. It is preferred instead to do incremental
>> updates via https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_Archive in
>> e.g. monthly increments, but if you insist on doing the whole thing in
>> one shot then at least use the latest version of pacman via my
>> pacman-static binaries, or the install media + pacman --sysroot /mnt -Syu)
> 
> Thank you Eli,
> 
>    Well, to be honest, I knew pacman had been updated and I thought rebooting
> would fix it :) -- Oh well, maybe not....
> 
>    pacman is fully updated now, right? So if I take that list and go back and
> try re-running the hooks -- that may be one way to fix it? Worse come to
> worse, I'll just wipe /root and reinstall...
> 

I had the same problem too (but I did not reboot). I just reinstalled all packages using this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Tips_and_tricks#Reinstalling_all_packages

I did it on all my servers without problems.

Regards,
Łukasz