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    Always have usb with linux for repair that (lemmy.world)
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    The faulty GRUB patch was a widespread issue. Syu -> reboot -> fail to boot. It was especially annoyng since you couldn't just rollback like with any other faulty arch update.

    Besides that, during the 2-3 years I mained it, I've had Arch often fail to boot after updating it for the first time in a few weeks. And on endeavour the update script gave up one day, and so I had to remember to manually mkinitcpio or it would fail to boot.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Yes, I've been affected by the grub crap several times.

    Been using arch and endeavour for about 5 years now, only ever had boot issues caused by Nvidia drivers. Outside of grub that is.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    My backup pc had the most issues with updates, and it doesn't have a dedicated GPU. I wouldn't update it for a few weeks or a month+, update, fail to boot, rollback, try again in a few weeks and it would work.

    The final straw was when I was working abroad with bad internet, and had to weigh whether -S or -Syu is more likely to cause a failure.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Interesting. How long ago was this? I use arch daily as my main driver, but also run it on a vps, a laptop, and a raspberry pi (arm distro). Other than grub, I can't recall the last time upgrading caused an issue.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

    The last time was 6+ months ago because I stopped using Arch. It happened from time to time on both of my machines, but it had a lot higher chance to happen on that particular pc than on my ThinkPad. I'm guessing it was more frequent because the main one was getting updated multiple times a week.

    There was one good warning sign though: if I needed to -Syyu, something was most likely going to go wrong with the update.