Computer won't get past Grub after upgrade 25 May 2024, 14:07:38 A couple of days ago I did a pacman upgrade on my laptop which installed 6.9.1-artix1-1.Since that time I have been unable to get the system to boot either to the main system, fallback initramfs, or recovery mode.On getting past the GRUB screen I get an error loading the initial ramdisk. 'you need to load the kernel first'I'm now looking at the system using an Arch live USB.In /usr/lib/modules I can see 6.9.1-artix1-1 and 6.5.5-artix1-1 as well as some others predating 6.5.5When I run mkinitcpio -p linux as arch-chroot on the system it produces an error after trying to create zstd-compressed initcpio images for both /boot/initramfs-linux.img and initramfs-linux-fallback.imgbsdtar: error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.75: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.For the initramfs-linux the error states: Early uncompressed CPIO image generation FAILED: 'bsdtar (step 1)' reported an error.For the fallback it's: Early uncompressed CPIO image generation FAILED: 'sort' reported an error.I'm operating at the limit of my Linux skillset here and could do with some guidance as to how to fix this and restore my system.I'm guessing I need to supply the required libicuuc.so.75 file and re-run mkinitcpio but don't want to take that step without asking more advice as I don't want to make things worse.Update: ldconfig -p | grep libicuuc shows:libicuuc.so.75 (libc6) => /usr/lib32/libicuuc.so.75libicuuc.so.74 (libc6,x86-64) =>/usr/lib/libicuuc.so.74TIA Last Edit: 25 May 2024, 15:01:25 by steveharriss
Re: Computer won't get past Grub after upgrade Reply #1 – 25 May 2024, 15:59:34 Fixed.Mounted the system from an Artix Live USB and ran pacman -r /mnt -SyuThen re-ran mkinitcpio as above without errors and re-booted into my old system.Hope this may help someone else