[SOLVED] EndeavorOS Kernel Panic

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Hey, so after applying updates and rebooting, I’m met with this, what do I do?

Found this little error message

[fleet nexus]

that doesn't look good, i assume the file got removed
you'll have to fix it from chroot, i'm unsure if endeavour has arch-chroot and whether linux-zen is what they use is configured or not
if you want to chroot manually, mount root and boot partitions and then;
cd /mnt
mount -t proc /proc proc/
mount -R /dev dev/
mount -R /sys sys/
chroot .

[dreamy valve]

no need to do those mounts

arch-chroot does that
you can install it throught arch-install-scripts

[fleet nexus]

oh i thought you needed to mount, thanks for clearing that up

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So I got a second set boot for the terminal, what command do I put in?

This is the result from Fdisk -l

[dreamy valve]

mount your root and esp and arch-chroot into your root then mkinitcpio -P

[dreamy valve]

to clear most stuff up
endeavour uses the same repos as arch so they basically give the same packages
so linux-zen is the same

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Wdym? Isn’t where to boot is already where it’s supposed to be?

[dreamy valve]

oh wait i thought you were in a live environment

aight just mkinticpio -P to regen all initrds

[fleet nexus]

i thought they used a configured kernel from their own repo, thanks again

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So rn I’m booting off of a flash drive, I’m trying to not have my data be wiped

[dreamy valve]

oh then youll have to mount your root to somewhere else like /mnt and your esp to where it was relative to where your root is mounted
so if it was mounted on /boot then /mnt/boot

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Like here in the highlighted?

Or am I being dumb

Sorry, I’m still a newb at this

[dreamy valve]

doesnt look like that's your root

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Hmm

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it's most likely the nvme drives one

idk which of those partitions are your root tho

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Do I check Fdisk-l

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are you multibooting?

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No, but yes?

[dreamy valve]

if not try mounting each partitions and check if it has directories like home etc root ....

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like do you have multiple linux installations on each partitions?

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I have my main system that’s not working, and im booting off of the installer that has a live desktop environment that I can interact with

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No, just one boot in the system

[dreamy valve]

oh ok then try this to pinpoint which is root

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I do believe it’s my 2 tb nvme

Cuz it’s fast and I’m my mobo, it ain’t the 1tb nvme cuz that’s dead, I’m just waiting to upgrade my hardware to take it out since it’s behind my Gpu, and I don’t feel like draining my loop for a nvme

[dreamy valve]

yeah it's the nvme drive but we dont know which partition tho there's 5 of them here

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Gotta be one of these top two

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probably p3 or p4 since p5 is your steam library

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Dis one, since it’s efi, no?

Yee, cuz the fat32 has a boot and esp tag

[dreamy valve]

efi is your esp
not your root

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No?

[dreamy valve]

let's just try mounting p3 for now

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Ok

[dreamy valve]

mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt

ls /mnt

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But it won’t delete any data, will it

[dreamy valve]

it wont

it's just mounting

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And ls /mnt? Do I add that to this?

Or I just run that

[dreamy valve]

show me its output after mount

[dreamy valve]

oh wait

nvme1n1p3

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I

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mount /dev/nvme1n1p3 /mnt

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K

Done

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now show me the output of ls /mnt

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Sudo or no

[dreamy valve]

no need

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jackpot

cat /mnt/etc/fstab

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ok
now
mount /dev/nvme1n1p1 /mnt/boot/efi

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So why are we mounting boot now?

Just curious, I wanna know what we’re doing so I learn 😛

But done

[dreamy valve]

actually we dont really need to since yours is mounted on /boot/efi instead of /boot
it's just practice, everytime you have to do something to the kernel and initrds and/or the bootloader youll have to mount it

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Ok

[dreamy valve]

arch-chroot /mnt
now you have to choice
mkinitcpio -P
or
pacman -S linux-zen
mkinitcpio -P regenerates the initrd
and pacman -S linux-zen reinstalls the kernel and regenerates the initrd also
the latter is the safer option

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Ok

Did pacman, now do I reboot, or nah

Wait

Says fatal library error

[dreamy valve]

ok uh your pacman local library might be fucked

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Elaborate

[dreamy valve]

did you perhaps did an update and closed the system without letting it finish?

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Ya

I thought it was done updating and rebooted

So what can I do?

[dreamy valve]

let's try reinstalling all broken packages
pacman -Qk 2>/dev/null | grep -v ' 0 missing files' | cut -d: -f1 | pacman -S -
-Qk queries all broken packages
2>/dev/null sends stderr to /dev/null
grep -v ... removes outputs with 0 missing files
cut only gets the first column so it's just the package names
and the last is just piping everything and making pacman install everything that was listed

use sudo for both pacmans

actually nvm youre in root cus chroot

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I’ll send what I have typed out before sending so ik it’s trumped right

[dreamy valve]

👍

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Hopefully it’s clear

[dreamy valve]

yep

[dreamy valve]

huh wait

╰───❯ sudo pacman -Qk 2>/dev/null | grep -v '0 missing files' | cut -d: -f1 | sudo pacman -S - 
warning: discord-0.0.29-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) discord-0.0.29-1

Total Installed Size:  220.54 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        0.00 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] n
╭─[i0bz@arch]-[~]
╰───❯```
idk but work's fine for me

try sudo

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Same result

[dreamy valve]

oh wait nvm

that just means there were no broken packages

weird

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Hmm

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try rebooting ig

i mean the initrd was regenerated with dracut

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Ok

Rebooting

Lit

Awesome

Progress I think

It’s just stuck here now

[dreamy valve]

are you able to switch tty?

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Tty?

[dreamy valve]

probably something to do with gpu drivers if so

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ctrl alt f1-6

rn youre on tty1

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It’s telling me wrong login

Wtf

[dreamy valve]

💀

try logging in as root

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Wtf

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Wdym

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root

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How

Ah

Done

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username root
and whatever you set during install

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Like this?

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now reset your user password
passwd yourusername

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Nah, I’m good on that now, I just needed root

So I’m good on logging in, but now what?

[dreamy valve]

ok so this is tricky

do you use nvidia?

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Unfortunately

[dreamy valve]

create this file
vim /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvidia.conf

you know how to use vim right?

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No

But im gonna

[dreamy valve]

it's fine ill show you how

[dreamy valve]

do that
after youre in vim
then enter in this
force_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm "
to insert in characters, press i then you can just type anything you want

after than press esc then :wq to save and quit vim

oh wait, could you pacman -Qs nvidia-dkms after this
i wanna check if you even have it installed for the zen kernel

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I should have dkms intalled as I game

[dreamy valve]

ok now this

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Reboot now or nah?

[dreamy valve]

ok,
now because idk how to regenerate dracut images
let's just pacman -S linux-zen again 💀

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Done

[dreamy valve]

now try rebooting

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No fatal errors

And stuck here

[dreamy valve]

can you switch tty again

login and show me
lsmod | grep nvidia

this shows if nvidia is loaded

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No

It ain’t

[dreamy valve]

weird

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modprobe nvidia

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ok yep dkms didnt build it

dkms autoinstall

then dracut --regenerate-all

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But nothing was found, or do I continue with the regeneration?

[dreamy valve]

pacman -S nvidia-dkms

to reinstall it

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Then I do the regeneration?

[dreamy valve]

yes

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K bet

Hopefully that should solve my issues?

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hopefully

[dreamy valve]

btw did you do dkms autoinstall after this?

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No

[dreamy valve]

b4 rebooting do it

and regenrate

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I did auto, pacman, now regen

In that order

[dreamy valve]

do auto then regen

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Still doesn’t exist

Did regen, and git this

During the dkms install I saw a bunch of would not install due to not finding file

@dreamy valve

[dreamy valve]

ok wtf

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Installing mkinitcpio

[dreamy valve]

actually nvm those modules arent needed

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But it’s still gives me this when I auto install

[dreamy valve]

yeah it's best to do that
i know barely know anything about dracut 💀

[dreamy valve]

idk why it does that even after reinstalling nvidia-dkms perhaps the latest package doesnt come with that

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Should I try a reboot?

[dreamy valve]

wait

dkms install nvidia

if it still says that just ignore it

then
dracut /boot/initramfs-linux-zen.img

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Done

[dreamy valve]

try rebooting

now

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Same thing

[dreamy valve]

yeah, cant help you
try making a new support thread with this problem now