Re: [arch-general] busted system after update

2020-11-16 Thread u34
Winston Smith wrote: > On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:32:01 +, 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

Re: [arch-general] busted system after update

2020-11-16 Thread NTS
On one LVM on LUKS system I always enter an emergency shell upon boot and need to do "mount /dev/mapper/cryptolvm_root /new_root" - never got round to correcting the grub2.cfg. On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 21:10, Ben Oliver via arch-general wrote: > > Many of use have been there! Earlier this year

Re: [arch-general] busted system after update

2020-11-16 Thread Ben Oliver via arch-general
Many of use have been there! Earlier this year I overwrote /etc/shadow with pacnew in a moment of madness.

Re: [arch-general] busted system after update

2020-11-16 Thread Winston Smith
On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 18:32:01 +, 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

[arch-general] busted system after update

2020-11-16 Thread winstonsmith
hi folks i could use a little push in the right direction. i run arch on a 2013 macbook air. i am running an LVM on LUKS system. after updating my system via "sudo pacman -Syu" i am locked out of my machine. on a subsequent boot i get the message: "ERROR: device '/dev/mapper/vgcrypt-root'