updating breaks boot, graphics drivers are broken

[green axle]

updating my system with sudo pacman -Syu breaks my system when i reboot. grub will be fine but the system won't be able to mount either partitions of the boot drive and it'll enter emergency mode. reinstalling the kernel (linux-zen) from here and rebooting fixes the issue until the next update. i also put off updates because it's a pain to do so some dependancies might've broke idk

also my graphics drivers are broken(nvidia), kdenlive won't display video, system monitor can't use gpu accelleration, davinci resolve can't find the gpu.

so some backstory to this system i had nvidia drivers in my ignorepkg for a while because they tended to break more than fix with updates so i waited and now they seem not to work. polychromatic for openrazer can't even find my mouse idk if that's related but the system has bugs and i'm not sure why or how to fix it

[amber mirage]

hm.. perhaps a bad initramfs? does mkinitcpio -P while chooting into your system give anything helpful?

[fluid lion]

Regarding the polychromatic issue make sure to update your aur packages too

or rebuild them if they need to be relinked

updating my system with sudo pacman -Syu breaks my system when i reboot. grub will be fine but the system won't be able to mount either partitions of the boot drive and it'll enter emergency mode. reinstalling the kernel (linux-zen) from here and rebooting fixes the issue until the next update. i also put off updates because it's a pain to do so some dependancies might've broke idk

Where is your esp mounted, are you using systemd-boot with the esp at /esp so you need to copy the kernel and initramfs over to /esp from /boot?

[amber mirage]

wow.. just noticed there is no /boot or ESP mountpoint mentioned in fastfetch. perhaps related?

[swift sail]

festfetch never lists /boot

[amber mirage]

keep forgetting that honestly. thanks

[west juniper]

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[swift sail]

huh?

[west juniper]

[green axle]

my boot drive is mounted here. using grub not systemd-boot

[swift sail]

you seem to lack the vfat modules that are required to mount /boot. I'd suggest chrooting and reinstalling your kernel

also make sure to watch for errors

also the content of /etc/fstab could be useful

[green axle]

that's how i fixed it initially but it happens every update. also reinstalling the kernel in emergency mode fixes it until the next update again

[swift sail]

any errors?

[green axle]

not that i remember. probably just the usual possibly missing firmware. is there a pacman journal for it?

[swift sail]

not that I know of, I don't think mkinitcpio keeps logs

[fluid lion]

Show output from reinstalling the kernel in the system

[fluid lion]

/var/log/pacman.log

(cat /etc/fstab; lsblk -f; cat /var/log/pacman.log) | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

[swift sail]

I don't think that includes mkinitcpio no?