[arch-general] busted system after update

[u34 at net9.ga]

Winston Smith <winstonsmith at vfemail.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:32:01 +0000, winstonsmith wrote:
> 
> > hi folks i could use a little push in the right direction.
> >
> 
> ok never mind i got it sorted.
> 
> seems my mkinitcpio.conf got replaced with a new version which did not
> include the encrypt or lvm2 hooks that my setup requires.
> 
> isn't that sort of thing supposed to be handled by pacnew files? i
> suppose there is a chance that i blindly replaced the conf file
> myself with the pacnew, whatever i coulda been tired...but i am usually
> careful about these things.
> 
> anyway i fixed it by booting an arch install iso, opening my luks
> encrypted device, mounted the partitions, chroot'ed into root and
> tweaked mkinitcpio.conf, then ran:
> 
> # mkinitcpio -p linux
> 
> all sorted, thought i'd follow up for someone else's benefit in case it
> wasn't my error that replaced mkinitcpio.conf in the first place.
> 

I think it was not your error:

    $ pacman -Qii mkinitcpio | tail -3
    Backup Files    :
    UNMODIFIED	/etc/mkinitcpio.conf
    
In general, one might want to create a customized 
/etc/mkinitcpio.d/ones.conf, and set /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset
to use it. I hope I didn't forgot something important here.

--
u34

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