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I think pacman just literally broke itself during an update. Trying to go for a restore backup, because something's telling me an unfinished update, that included a new kernel, is not a good thing.

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@alyx Years ago I had pacman break when updating glibc and then everything was broked. It was a fresh install and I ended up giving up on :archlinux: and going back to :gentoo: 😅

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Restore worked fine, even if it took a bit too long cause the backup was compressed. But I'm back up and running.

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btw, pacman failed while updating pacman and deleted itself. lol.

@djsumdog
Sweated there for a bit, but the update went fine this time around. Rebooted and everything.

@djsumdog @alyx gentoo is pretty sweet, if only they’d fix their abominably slow dependency calculations. Even if it meant not allowing dependencies to be as flexible as they are. And made it so that problems could be fixed on the spot, rather than just dying and throwing away all that dependency calculation, making you redo it every time you fix each problem. Other than upgrading though, it works pretty great.

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