Hello! I’ve installed CachyOS on 13th of February so this is a really fresh install. Since then I am unable to run any upgrades. First time around I’ve ended up in emergency mode - root account locked, so I just rolled back. Since yesterday, I’ve been fighting harder. I’ve logged through a live ISO…

[image] DimmuDeer: #[multilib] #Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Its up to you whether this is enabled or not - its what provides all the lib32 packages and would likely be needed if you intend to game. The rest of the issue is bigger. You should have at least one more entry for [cachyos].…

Awesome. I shall commence the reboot. Hopefully I wont end up on the emergency screen again.

What most likely happened is this: There was an update for the pacman package That package provides /etc/pacman.conf You can always check which package installed a file: pacman -Qo /etc/pacman.conf And search for more info about it on https://packages.cachyos.org/ The file likely changed in the…

Welp, so, here we are. [20260227_000610] I’m on live ISO and in root. I fetched fstab from root if it helps. How do I get out of this purgatory? # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a device; this may # be used with UUID= as…

Wait a minute. I’ve just re-read your post and I seem to be missing the [cachyos] itself inside of my config. Goddamit. I’ll run the update again and hopefully something positive will happen.

If that doesn’t do it, personally, I would probably just use btrfs snapshots to roll back all the way to before you accepted the pacnew (assuming it’s not too terribly far back), and update as usual from there (this time, disregarding/deleting the pacnew for pacman.conf). Or, at least, to the last b…

[image] DimmuDeer: I’m on live ISO and in root. I hope that should read: “I’m on live ISO and in cachy-chroot”, because otherwise you would just update your live environment, which is not your goal.

Thanks for linking it, I’ll read it more carefully next time I run into a pacnew. I’ve seen that post a few days ago but lost it.

You are correct, it was cachy-chroot, I was following a guide and I checked that the user is [root@CachyOS /]#.

Well, my update was failing even last week, before I’ve accepted the pacnew. I thought that must fix it but it did indeed make things worse. Anyway, I’ve run the update on cachy-chroot and I still ended up in emergency mode. So I’ve rolled back, fixed the pacman.conf and will try again later today …

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There are a bunch of posts/threads relating to the proper handling of pacnews but I will try to link to one that in turn should link to the archwiki article for more;