Hellfire103@sopuli.xyz to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agoLooks like I'll be distrohopping again!sopuli.xyzimagemessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up183arrow-down16
arrow-up177arrow-down1imageLooks like I'll be distrohopping again!sopuli.xyzHellfire103@sopuli.xyz to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square15fedilink
minus-squareJATth@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoSo it is btrfs snapshot time again and making it a bootable backup before pacman -Syu? I have had only single time I remember when the Arch upgrade truly fucked up the system: libreadline.so was broken so bash didn’t work. :D I always have a second bootable system in case the main system is unable to boot… So I can at least troubleshoot the main system.
minus-squareHellfire103@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-28 months agoI have multiple devices, but I just use my trusty KNOPPIX LiveCD to unlock the disk and move everything onto an external hard drive before either troubleshooting via chroot or just doing a clean install.
So it is btrfs snapshot time again and making it a bootable backup before
pacman -Syu
?I have had only single time I remember when the Arch upgrade truly fucked up the system: libreadline.so was broken so bash didn’t work. :D
I always have a second bootable system in case the main system is unable to boot… So I can at least troubleshoot the main system.
I have multiple devices, but I just use my trusty KNOPPIX LiveCD to unlock the disk and move everything onto an external hard drive before either troubleshooting via chroot or just doing a clean install.