Follow-up from “Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?”.

Here’s mine - the laptop from which I’m typing right now has a broken touchpad that keeps jumping and clicking randomly, and does not work. Well, I can’t afford to fix it, but at the moment, I was so pissed off I punched the touchpad really hard, and the machine panicked with all the lights blinking. A few more revival abuses, and the machine was back to life, but since I was running a nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade in the background, I blew off my boot partition. I think I just broke the unbreakable distro.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    Wait how do you do a chroot rescue? I just updated my arch with kde computer and the login screen is frozen. I feel like it’s a kde issue from a gentleman I talked to on the Arch Matrix server.

    • U de Recife@literature.cafe
      5·
      1 year ago

      Not OP, but here’s how. You live-distro yourself to a running command prompt. You then connect to the internet, mount the partitions, finally chrooting to your computer’s storage install. Once there, you clear pacman’s lock from var and run a full update: pacman -Syyu. Wait until it finishes, exit chroot, reboot. 9 out 10 times works as expected.

    • gayhitler420@lemm.ee
      2·
      1 year ago

      boot the damaged system using a media with the chroot command, use it, do whatever is needed to fix the damaged system from inside it.