Not bootable after update. Stuck at black screen. cachy-chroot error invalid option

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Pacnews are meant to be manually inspected and then incorporated or deleted as needed.

pacman/Pacnew and Pacsave - ArchWiki

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If you are not familiar with it then the proper tool to handle pacnews is pacdiff.

To print existing ones;

pacdiff -o

To handle them (using sudoedit privleges as necessary);

pacdiff -s

If you do not have DIFFPROG set somewhere and therefor it defaults to vi comparison you can set the env var on the execution line;

DIFFPROG=meld pacdiff -s

Following the prompts to View (view is also ‘edit’ - then save and exit the comparison tool when done) and afterwards Remove the pacnew or Skip it to retain for later inspection.

It would be a bit difficult to provide an overview of each of your pacnew files .. and it is dependent on the local system/needs/etc.

Though I could mention that the mirrorlist files are probably mostly unimportant due to ranking tools like rate-mirrors.

But I might guess that somewhere between mkinitcpio and limine and snapper that these unresolved pacnews might be related to your ‘i update and it breaks’ situation. Part of updates on Arch/Cachy is pacnews and local admin attention to them.

These files require manual intervention from the user and it is good practice to handle them right after every package upgrade or removal. If left unhandled, improper configurations can result in improper function of the software or the software being unable to run altogether.