[SOLVED] Can't login on my LUKS LVM Arch Linux system. | Arch Linux Community | Page 2

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:44 PM

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This is why you don't run random commands withou researching first

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That includes what we say too because you should have known you had applied the old snapshot

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because it's your pc

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 9:44 PM

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also

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sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:45 PM

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Yeah I got confused with the snapshot but I thought it would only delete those old configs 4 months old

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loading the liveCD now

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and do iwctl to connect to my wireless

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:47 PM

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sweet arrow Yeah I got confused with the snapshot but I thought it would only delete those o...

Nope but you applied the old snapshot before removing

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:47 PM

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yeah that's it, I screwed up 😦

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:47 PM

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And that is what started your issues

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 9:47 PM

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fyi, this is why I use ext4 it's simple

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:48 PM

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I opted for btrfs mostly for the snapshot recovery stuff iirc. Ended up causing way more trouble than what was worth obviously

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OK gonna mount now

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I should mount everything, including boot, right?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:49 PM

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yup

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:50 PM

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I always forget the Luks open command, hold on

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having issues with the mount

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mount /dev/mapper/arch-root /mnt

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mount /dev/mapper/arch-home /mnt/home

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the second command is not working

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:54 PM

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sweet arrow `mount /dev/mapper/arch-root /mnt`

And it's now the right subvol right?

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:55 PM

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haven't checked, still trying to mount home

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yeah, something weird going on with the mount

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:57 PM

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Welll did you check that it exists

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:57 PM

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says it's a read only filesystem /root.zdirs

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when I do cd /mnt I can only see a few folders, namely bin lib lib64 and sbin. All red for some reason

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:57 PM

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digital tapir Welll did you check that it exists

What do you mean?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:57 PM

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the dir

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what subvol are you mounting now

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you still didn't set the default subvol ?

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:58 PM

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I am trying to mount arch-root

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:58 PM

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you're mounting some random subvol

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:58 PM

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I am still on the liveCD, haven't chrooted or anything

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 9:58 PM

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you have to specify the subvol since you still haven't fixed that issue

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You're mounting the default subvol

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which is something

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 9:59 PM

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oh right, because I am using the "old" one from snapshots, is that it?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:00 PM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:00 PM

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I'm confused, am I missing something?

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or did I do some wrong step?

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I connected wifi through iwctl, made sure it was on, checked with lsblk, open the encrypted media and now trying to mount root but it is the wrong subvolid, is that it?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:01 PM

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Maybe the * in the snapper list was the snapshot in use or something

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Did you read the snapper docs

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https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP5/html/SLES-all/cha-snapper.html#sec-snapper-snapshot-boot did you run rollback at one point

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Probably you did

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:02 PM

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Yeah but never saw anything like "number+" and I know snapper-rollback is not to be used but snapper rollback instead. I created 2 configs and deleted one, or I thought I did

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not since this entire thing started

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at some point being weeks or months ago then probably

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:03 PM

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Just mount the right subvol and chroot

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I've sent it earlier

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:04 PM

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so only the root, no home or anything?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:04 PM

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.

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:05 PM

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oh so do that as in mount -o /dev/mapper/arch-root subvol=/ /mnt?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:06 PM

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-o subvol=/

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:07 PM

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Also mounted home and boot. Should I mount efi under mnt as well?

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since the issue is with firmware, it's necessary, right?

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BIOS, that is

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hmm says that mountpoint does not exist. I suppose it's because that entry is commented in fstab, right?

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pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:11 PM

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congrats, this thread hit 1k+ without a bios update

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:12 PM

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yeah, I am trying (

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so should I chroot now?

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is it properly mounted?

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ok I think I am chrooted properly

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:13 PM

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yeah

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now pacman -Syu

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:13 PM

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ok doing that.

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:13 PM

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The bios update isn't relevant to this issue

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:13 PM

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digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:13 PM

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you're gonna have lots of those

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:13 PM

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Should I just click y in all of these?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:13 PM

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answer yes

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yes

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:14 PM

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Yeah just to be sure

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Just 2

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:14 PM

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hold on

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:14 PM

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let's see if a 5 and a half months of updates will work

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Sometimes it breaks

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:14 PM

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pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:14 PM

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pacman -Rns electron33

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read this, https://archlinux.org/news/manual-intervention-for-pacman-700-and-local-repositories-required/ then do that

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:15 PM

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That is to remove electron and respective cache, right?

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:15 PM

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yes

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:15 PM

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pliant estuary read this, https://archlinux.org/news/manual-intervention-for-pacman-700-and-loc...

Doesn't seem relevant

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:16 PM

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Yeah I am reading that link now

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:16 PM

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Remember to update/rebuild your aur packages too @sweet arrow

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:17 PM

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digital tapir Doesn't seem relevant

yet

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:17 PM

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It seems to be talking about permissions to download the files if I don't have them, is that it?

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So do pacman -Rns next step, right?

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:17 PM

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photo please

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:17 PM

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pliant estuary yet

It's from 2014-09-14 while this snapshot is from early this year

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:18 PM

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Just trying to make sure I don't screw up anything

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:18 PM

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That news isn't relevant

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yes Rns

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:18 PM

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So clear on the pacman -Rns electron, I'm not gonna do anything wrong?

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:20 PM

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@sweet arrow electron33 not electron

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:20 PM

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Yeah that's what I did

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:20 PM

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remove vesktop

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then update

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:20 PM

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So now I am gonna have to delete vesktop and probably discord, right?

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:20 PM

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just vesktop

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:21 PM

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Yeah it's just that Discord also has that dependency iirc

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OK I removed vesktop bin

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Should I do pacman -Syu again?

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:21 PM

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yes

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:21 PM

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Oooh

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pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:22 PM

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yes

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:22 PM

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My internet connection is not very fast so this one will take a while...

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But it seems like good news if I am following right

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:23 PM

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yes

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:23 PM

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Yeah installing 3G, I'll message once it's done

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:25 PM

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sweet arrow

This is because the aur package is out of date

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When the system is not doing a big jump like this then presumably you have already updated vesktop-bin at some point and thus electron33 is a orphan

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:26 PM

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Either way not a major issue, worst case scenario, just have to get vesktop again after. If that is the only loss all good

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And after pacman, I have to do yay -Syu as well? But outside of chroot since doing yay as root is not safez right?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:27 PM

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su -l yourusername to switch to your user

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:27 PM

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sweet arrow And after pacman, I have to do yay -Syu as well? But outside of chroot since doi...

yay, or makepkg as a whole, does not allow it to be ran as root

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:27 PM

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Oh that's right

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Yeah makes sense

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It finished downloading this month's firmware

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And after all this, do the fwupdmgr-get updates refresh

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correct?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 10:32 PM

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~~Dunno if it works in chroot since it didn't work outside~~

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:32 PM

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but that was because it was with the wrong subvolid back then, no?

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and if it's downloading linux-firmware, shouldn't that have BIOS update as well?

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:39 PM

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sweet arrow and if it's downloading linux-firmware, shouldn't that have BIOS update as well?

no

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:49 PM

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at two thirds of the way now

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so assuming all the updates go well, it's su -l next for the yay updates? Or fwupdmgr first?

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:55 PM

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@sweet arrow try fwupd

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then do the yay out of the chroot, in y our booted partition

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:56 PM

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ok so fwupd in the chroot live CD then reboot to the booted thing

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:56 PM

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yes

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 10:56 PM

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and should boot without issues or needing to change the subvolid this time, if I understood correctly

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 10:58 PM

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yes, you are right

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:00 PM

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Fwupd didn't work because it was a partial upgrade

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So maybe in chroot it'll work because it was a full update

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:00 PM

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ok just a couple more minutes until pacman finishes

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and it's fwupdmgr get-updates and then refresh, are those the only 2?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:01 PM

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Nop

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:02 PM

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get devices first

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:05 PM

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and then a couple more commands after

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:05 PM

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finished downloading and verifying, installing now

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:08 PM

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You dont even need to update the bios now because it's not related to the issue

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:09 PM

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OK so what is the best course of action?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:09 PM

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regen the grub config

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:09 PM

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Now, in the liveCD?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:09 PM

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in the chroot

pliant estuary May 21, 2025, 11:09 PM

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if using grub

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:09 PM

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Yeah I have GRUB

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:09 PM

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so we hopefully can get rid of the default snapshot subvol thing

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:10 PM

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So I should do grub -o ... command now, right?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:10 PM

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the mkconfig

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.aw grub

west mossBOT May 21, 2025, 11:10 PM

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digital tapir .aw grub

Grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Grub

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:11 PM

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so not install but skip to the config section

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yeah this one grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:11 PM

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yup

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:11 PM

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it's what I was thinking of

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but there's another command after that, right?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:11 PM

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nope

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also check if the top entry in the grub menu will boot the snapshot subvol, if it does then find the one which doesn't boot it

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So you don't have to keep editing it

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:12 PM

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ok then I am misremembering

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so do the command first?

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while chrooted, right?

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:13 PM

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digital tapir also check if the top entry in the grub menu will boot the snapshot subvol, if i...

it ought to do the correct one automatically with just the command, right?

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It still has that 178 snapshot and created more apparently, if I understand it right

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:15 PM

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Hold on, snapshots inside snapshot

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So you were running 178

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without doing something to correctly continue from it

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so there's snapshots in there

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maybe you could restore one of those

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:16 PM

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So is that good news?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:16 PM

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yeah if you know how to restore

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You gotta read docs for that

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:17 PM

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Well, would it not be redundant now since I did the pacman Syu?

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And the home was not affected?

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Is it the correct GRUB though, is it how it was supposed?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:17 PM

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Your grub is on the separate partition

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:18 PM

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Right, on boot

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So, what do I do now?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:19 PM

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Can you boot 1696 snapshot

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:19 PM

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So you want me to leave chroot and try booting normally now, no live CD?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:19 PM

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yeah

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:20 PM

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Got rid of my GRUB theme

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:20 PM

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Yeah you hadn't set one in this current gen

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Can you boot the newer snapshot

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:21 PM

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digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:21 PM

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Show the snapshots menu

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:21 PM

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This is the default it has

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1696 is a couple days old so before bricking this, I guess

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Should I boot that one?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:23 PM

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ye

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:23 PM

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Then I boot on the second option, right?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:23 PM

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just boot it

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:24 PM

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Not good

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And I meant second option because clicking enter on the first was not doing anything

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:24 PM

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I wonder what those snapshots have

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:25 PM

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So I went with the initramfs fallback img

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Well, apparently nothing good or are only in read only

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So should I try booting normally, no snapshot this time? First option?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:25 PM

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Boot the iso and mount 1696 with it's subvolid

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:26 PM

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Boot the iso, you mean the liveCD again?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:26 PM

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yeah

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or boot in to the system

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probaly no harm in doing that

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:26 PM

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Gonna try to boot into the system normally, no snapshots first

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:26 PM

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This says you should be able to boot a snapshot and then rollback to it https://documentation.suse.com/sles/12-SP5/html/SLES-all/cha-snapper.html#sec-snapper-snapshot-boot

Administration Guide

Maintain, monitor and customize SLES

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but maybe you use some weeird stuff

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idk what snapper-rollback does

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you need to verify what's in those and then apply it if you want

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:27 PM

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Gives me some weird no IRQ handler but let's me input password. Should I go for it anyway?

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No risk in just trying to boot that, right?

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Yeah same error

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Says sbin init does not exist

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:29 PM

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mount

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:30 PM

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In the liveCD?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:30 PM

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nope

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but nevermind

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maybe your mkinitcpio config is now wrong?

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:30 PM

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Yeah I am turning liveCD again

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:31 PM

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Does the fs have /sbin/init now

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:31 PM

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It's possible, I should have regenerated that, I think that was that second step that I was thinking about, no?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:31 PM

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sweet arrow

Are you sure you didn't just boot the previous snapshot now

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because the choice was saved?

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:31 PM

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Oh it's possible but I don't think so. I checked and said root, did not mention the snapshot in the options

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:34 PM

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How about booting the 184 snapshot

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or specifying the / subvol

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or looking in advanced options and booting something from there

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:34 PM

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I'm on the liveCD now

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:35 PM

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mount 1696 and see what it has

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:35 PM

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So just mounting arch root as /mnt

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And not chrooting but only looking at what's inside 1696?

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This?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:38 PM

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I suppose the default subvol now the one with all those snaphsots inside it

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:38 PM

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It's weird... Inside home has another user which I created once when I screwed up something with PAM

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So I am not sure what I am looking for

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:39 PM

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Maybe you just gotta boot the newest snapshot

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and the top entry in the grub was booting that now

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because it was now the default subvol

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Btrfs#Changing_the_default_sub-volume

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:39 PM

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So it updated automatically?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:39 PM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:40 PM

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Should I leave liveCD again?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:40 PM

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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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If you don't want to do anything else there

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just boot then Ig

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and specify the / subvol if booting the newest subvol does nothing

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and set it as the default then

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:41 PM

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I am not sure, shouldn't I try the mkinitcpio thing first?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:41 PM

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or set it now

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:41 PM

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How?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:41 PM

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sweet arrow I am not sure, shouldn't I try the mkinitcpio thing first?

Not relevant anymore because there was no stuff in there

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it was mounted but no sbin

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you can now change the default to / because you now have free space

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previously you couldn't

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I wonder what snapshot this updating was done in lol

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:43 PM

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So change the default to / while on the liveCD?

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btrfs subvolume set-default 5 /

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Is that the command I should do?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:43 PM

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adjust the path depending on if chrooted or not

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:44 PM

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So without being chrooted I should do /mnt and chrooted /?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:44 PM

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yep

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:44 PM

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But better to be chrooted?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:44 PM

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Doesn't matter

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:45 PM

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This?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:46 PM

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yeah

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:46 PM

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Does not work

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digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:47 PM

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also I found this

Grub will look for grub.cfg in the subvolume that you chrooted to and executed grub-install. So to get grub to read the correct grub.cfg in the correct subvolume:

SO INSTALL GRUB AGAIN IF IT DOES NOT WORK
AND DO IT IN THE RIGHT SUBVOL NOT LIKE IT"S NOW

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:47 PM

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sweet arrow

Adjust the path...

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:47 PM

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Yeah, grub-install I missed that

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:47 PM

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digital tapir Adjust the path...

You're right, sorry

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OK did that, no error message, what now?

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I'm sorry, really. I'm just having a difficult time

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How do I know if it worked?

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I take it I have to do grub-install now, not chrooted?

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The generate another GRUB config?

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:54 PM

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sweet arrow I take it I have to do grub-install now, not chrooted?

Remember to have the esp mounted

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and the install is done in chroot

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:55 PM

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esp? the EFI?

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yeah can't mount anything under /mnt but I can mount /home

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and /boot

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just not under /mnt

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:58 PM

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...

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:58 PM

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and can't mount the EFI partition

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:58 PM

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the path depends on if chrooted or not

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:58 PM

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you are right, let me chroot then

digital tapir May 21, 2025, 11:58 PM

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bruh

sweet arrow May 21, 2025, 11:58 PM

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sorry, once again, it's just that it's late and I can't think straight. I appreciate your patience ofc

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Still can't mount efi even chrooted

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digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:01 AM

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Because your esp isn't mounted there

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it's /boot/efi like your fstab said

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:02 AM

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Like this?

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digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:02 AM

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yep

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:02 AM

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so do the grub config again now?

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:03 AM

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install and grub config

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:03 AM

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grub-install

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grub mkconfig -o...

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:03 AM

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.aw grub

west mossBOT May 22, 2025, 12:03 AM

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digital tapir .aw grub

Grub

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Grub

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:03 AM

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while chrooted

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right?

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:04 AM

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yep

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:04 AM

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no error on the first

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digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:05 AM

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now boot and use the default grub menu entry

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:06 AM

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OK so if I am following right, what this now did is, HOPEFULLY, generated a new GRUB entry but this time with the correct, updated mount points

pliant estuary May 22, 2025, 12:06 AM

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fyi, you can limit how many snapshots are made

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:06 AM

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Yeah so leave chroot amount and try to boot normally but confirm first in the boot entry what I'm booting into, right?

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:06 AM

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yes

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:07 AM

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pliant estuary fyi, you can limit how many snapshots are made

While doing the GRUB config or after?

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:07 AM

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no

pliant estuary May 22, 2025, 12:07 AM

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sweet arrow While doing the GRUB config or after?

either or

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:07 AM

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You should later look in to the 1696 snapshot or something to see if you can restore your state the one with all your configs

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or copy your necessary config

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:07 AM

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digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:07 AM

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and the package list

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:08 AM

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sweet arrow

boot

pliant estuary May 22, 2025, 12:08 AM

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right here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snapper#Set_snapshot_limits

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:08 AM

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OK it logins again

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On Hyprland uwsm

pliant estuary May 22, 2025, 12:09 AM

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with wifi?

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:09 AM

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But with that login, not autologin

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Let's see

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Possibly. It recognises the adapter at least

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:10 AM

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lspci -k

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did the driver load

pliant estuary May 22, 2025, 12:10 AM

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ping -c3 archlinux.org

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:10 AM

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Aka did you do the update in the correct subvol

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:11 AM

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Well, the touchpad now works

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Let me try to connect to a hotspot from my phone

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Yeah, seems like it

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Sound works as well

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What should I do now?

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Oh right, I should do fwupdmgr update now, right?

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As well as yay

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Hypridle.service now runs automatically but still have this error

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:15 AM

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welp now you have a functioning system

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:16 AM

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digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:16 AM

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You'll need to decide if you want to get back to a state that was not 5 months ago

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:16 AM

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Yeah, so yay, double meaning right?

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:16 AM

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digital tapir You'll need to decide if you want to get back to a state that was not 5 months a...

Shouldn't this state be the updated one?

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:16 AM

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Is it?

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Did grub have the theme?

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It could be the updated one but not the same as the one new one

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So 5 months of state lost

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:19 AM

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Oh yeah, the theme seems to be reset but the rest ought to be updated

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Or maybe not, you are right... Hour went back to UTC so... Not sure

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It's just that the home with all the configs and quality of life stuff is the same so not easy to tell right away

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:20 AM

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digital tapir Did grub have the theme?

No, it didn't

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So should I do a yay -Syu fwupdmgr and then try to fix the rest step by step later on?

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There is certainly some oddities still, can't access my WiFi only hotspot, strange

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:26 AM

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Driver?

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:27 AM

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Doing a yay update now. Then gonna do the fwupdmgr update

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:28 AM

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I prolly just would have backed up my most recent files and then reinstalled

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Taken a list of my packages and then backed up the etc and then copied what I need from it

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:29 AM

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Possible but strange that links to the hotspot

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:29 AM

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So you can see ssid

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And the device

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So the driver loaded?

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Did you check

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:30 AM

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With lspci -k?

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:31 AM

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Yeah

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:32 AM

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It's either some certificate or my WiFi itself acting up. Or the way it's configured

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Maybe it's just because it is connecting automatically to the VPN and that is causing issues

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But seems like a reasonably functional system now, right?

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 12:46 AM

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Guess so

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Reinstall the system (dont reformat home, only root) if it doesn't work by tomorrow

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Check if you can copy your etc and package list from the old but new snapshot

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You can chroot in to it while in the installed system

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Just gotta install the install utils

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Them you can run the pacman command to make a package list

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It's on the wiki

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:55 AM

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I am doing the yay now, still

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then doing the fwupdmgr then I need to rest, honestly haha

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still need to go through carefully about what changed and if there is stuff missing

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OK done with yay

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Also, it was an issue with VPN. It connects automatically to VPN which is not working for some reason, so I disabled that and works now, my WiFi, that is

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And just did the fwupdmgr get devices get updates and refresh

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I think it worked fine

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Just downloading vesktop because it was the only thing I had to uninstall in the liveCD iirc

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Still gotta figure out the issue with the VPN, Bluetooth and time

pliant estuary May 22, 2025, 1:40 AM

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@sweet arrow is this solved?

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 1:41 AM

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I think so, even though I still need to figure out about the boot and the snapshots

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Thanks to both of you!

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You have lots of patience haha

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also already changed the time back to correct, done the fwupdmgr without issues (I think) WiFi no issues, downloaded another VPN config, no issue, Bluetooth bit weird but probably fixable without much hassle

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as for the snapshots I have rn:

────┼────────┼───────┼──────────────────────────────────┼──────┼──────────┼───────────────────────┼─────────
  0 │ single │       │                                  │ root │          │ current               │
178 │ single │       │ Thu 09 Jan 2025 06:51:01 PM WET  │ root │          │ writable copy of #160 │
179 │ single │       │ Wed 21 May 2025 06:23:43 PM WEST │ root │ number   │ boot                  │
180 │ single │       │ Wed 21 May 2025 07:00:01 PM WEST │ root │ timeline │ timeline              │
181 │ single │       │ Wed 21 May 2025 08:00:01 PM WEST │ root │ timeline │ timeline              │
182 │ single │       │ Wed 21 May 2025 08:29:04 PM WEST │ root │ number   │ boot                  │
183 │ single │       │ Wed 21 May 2025 09:00:07 PM WEST │ root │ timeline │ timeline              │
184 │ single │       │ Wed 21 May 2025 10:00:09 PM WEST │ root │ timeline │ timeline              │
185 │ single │       │ Thu 22 May 2025 01:08:25 AM WEST │ root │ number   │ boot                  │
186 │ single │       │ Thu 22 May 2025 02:00:15 AM WEST │ root │ timeline │ timeline              │

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so it is making automatic snapshots as intended but gotta figure that out otherwise I risk getting similar issues in the future, right?

pliant estuary May 22, 2025, 1:53 AM

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... solved

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pliant estuary May 22, 2025, 1:53 AM

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@sweet arrow

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 1:54 AM

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[SOLVED] Can't login on my LUKS LVM Arch Linux system.

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 1:56 AM

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sweet arrow as for the snapshots I have rn: ```# │ Type │ Pre # │ Date ...

178 has the weird snapshots inside it

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Remember that

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 1:56 AM

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Yeah, I gotta take a careful look at it when I have the right focus

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Thank you! 👍

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 12:49 PM

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from what I gather from 178, looking through the info, it's a writable copy of 160 which does not exist anymore and is from January. I only seem to have one config list for snaphots, I assume it's still doing the regular autocleanup, making one per boot, regular stuff. I don't see any 1698 folder, it is starting on 178, I assume those are gonna be loaded as snapshots on boot as well. Not sure if there is an issue at this point 😕

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but so far seems to be working as intended

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the only weird things so far was an app was uninstalled since it was not from pacman nor yay but downloads and such seem to be the same so maybe some temp files deleted? And still can't make the sddm autologin work and haven't tried to make the GRUB themes back, gotta make sure I don't mess anything up in that regard. I assume I don't have to change anything in the PAM

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Also, I think I figured out how so many space was freed. My Steam games seem to have been uninstalled which would account for the extra 40/50G of space, probably

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it does seem, however, to be a snapshot from January. I checked and the one game that was not uninstalled had the last hard save being from May 16, almost a week ago, even though I had made other saves at least until a couple of days after that. However, the autosaves were all from early January

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 3:16 PM

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You only rollbacked root, your home was not affected

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Unless you also did something with your home snapshots, if you even take those

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Or you save your games in the root for some reason

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 3:29 PM

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Yes, I do save games in root, Steam is there. I used to take home snapshots but I delete (or I think I did) that config. At least it does not show. So only root is snapshotted

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 3:31 PM

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sweet arrow Yes, I do save games in root, Steam is there. I used to take home snapshots but ...

Wtf

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Then you'll have to get them from or restore the new snapshot

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Or maybe rsync with all the correct flags

sweet arrow May 22, 2025, 3:33 PM

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Yeah, I did that because I made my home folder too small so it would not be possible so the Steam directory is there.
I don't think there's a snapshot of those anymore, it's either the original one from January or the ones being done from yesterday onward. It was just odd that there were still any saved games at all and pointing the discrepancy between the last autosave bein from January yet having hard saves from under a week ago

digital tapir May 22, 2025, 3:34 PM

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sweet arrow Yeah, I did that because I made my home folder too small so it would not be poss...

There were snapshots inside of a snapshot

#[SOLVED] Can't login on my LUKS LVM Arch Linux system.