I've lost everything and I don't know how to get it back. How can I repair my system all I have is a usb with slax linux. I am freaking out because I had a lot of projects on their that I hadn't pushed to github as well as my configs and rice. Is there any way to repair my system? Can I get a shell from systemd?
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Oh my God. Flashbacks to the first time I fucked up my Arch installation like a decade ago. This is a solid run-through of a very character-building exercise 😂
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I couldn't figure out how to mount /dev/sda1 and did pacman -Syu and then I mounted it once I figured it out now pacman says there is nothing to do.
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Pretty sure pacman runs mkinitcpio by itself, but I guess a second time for good measure couldn’t hurt
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Not an endavour/arch user, but have been in similar situation.
What I did:
- boot into live USB
- mount the problematic rootfs
- chroot to it
- run pacman update
Archwiki has a nice article on chroot
Is this work for every system? Like Fedora?
Well , except the pacman part. The chroot part should certainly work.
Thank you all for offering advice. I did eventually get it working and repaired all the packages.
Boot to a liveUSB of the distro of your choice, create a chroot to your install, and then run a Pacman update from there.
Googling “Arch rescue chroot” should point you in the right direction. Good luck!
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i dunno why you gotta call me out like that…
Does Timeshift work on Arch? If so I would look into it, saved my ass a few times.
Timeshift definitely works on Arch (I use it before every update) but it isn't going to help OP if he hasnt taken an image already
