• MildlyArdvark@feddit.dk
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    1 year ago

    I never understood these. Arch has always been rock solid for me and in 10 years or so I have never had to chroot to fix an issue. The most annoying issues have been related to PGP signatures or old certificates but those have been easily fixed.

    What is it you people do to your arch installs that fucks them up so much?

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      1 year ago

      The only time is during setup once I forgot to download iwd so I had to chroot back in to install that from within the installer.

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      1 year ago

      Using Manjaro+Nvidia. About a 20% of kernel or driver updates leaves me with a black screen. Then I do rollback and wait for a bit more stable version ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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      X11 had some breaking updates in the past, my monolithic multi monitor config was suddenly in the wrong spot. Or packages I was supposed to delete before an upgrade according to the newspage, but I updated impulsively bam chroot times. That was years ago and made me switch, maybe it has become better?

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      • Nvidia driver (not me, I’m poor)
      • dubious/niche AUR packages
      • Wrong settings on BIOS/UEFI
      • Windows Update on dual-boot setup (sometimes)

      I don’t know why, but my archlinux bootloader always disappear if I connet bootable disk when my computer is booting, lol…

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          Some custom or git version of application. Once a time I need to use sddm git to fix bug with my hylrland.

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        1 year ago

        It’s possible your uefi has a thing about default EFI boot names. I ended up changing mine to just boot because if I update the bios it clears everything and doesn’t automatically pick up any EFI except boot.

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          1 year ago

          My advice is that you make sure you use a full unblemished calf for sacrifice with gilded horns of gold.

          If you don’t gild the horns and burn the fatty thigh parts in the fire then it will never boot.

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      Only time I’ve had to do it so far was due to dual booting Windows and it overriding boot thingies. Apart from that it has been running more or less flawlessly for a few years now.

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      1 year ago

      I personally had my Arch install broken 2 times from standard updates about 5 years ago. Jumped ship and never installed Arch again.