Caps Lock Blinking on Boot After Manjaro Update - What Can I Do?
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I recently updated my Manjaro system, and after that, it froze on a bright screen, so I made the unfortunate choice to force restart it by holding the power button. Now, when I try to boot, I see messages like '/dev/nvme0n1p1: recovering journal' or 'kernel panic - not syncing - attempted to kill init!' along with my Caps Lock button blinking intermittently. Sometimes it seems stuck on those messages. I've tried booting with advanced options, but I either see the same errors or a message saying there's no kernel installed, even though I do have other kernels. I looked online and found that the blinking Caps Lock usually indicates a kernel panic. I attempted to use a live USB to run the chroot command to fix it, but I got stuck because it said 'no shared libraries elf' after mounting my partition. I'm in a bit of a bind because I didn't back up my system properly; Timeshift has my backups, but they're outdated. Any suggestions for steps I can take to resolve this?
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It sounds like you're experiencing some serious boot issues there! When using chroot, make sure to follow the full procedure. You could try the `manjaro-chroot` script from a live session, as it automates mounting the necessary partitions for you. You can find detailed steps on Manjaro's wiki, especially around reinstalling GRUB if that might help get things back on track.
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Sounds like a tough situation! Make sure your main system partition and the EFI partition are properly mounted during the chroot process. If they’re on different drives, that can cause confusion. Also, consider double-checking your drive designations; sometimes in dual-boot setups things can get mixed up. If Timeshift isn’t helping, you might want to explore setting up more frequent backups with tools like Rsync or even cloud options to prevent this in the future.
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