11-08-2021, 01:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-08-2021, 01:17 PM by Dendrocalamus64.)
I meant don't get stuck like I did where I had the one Pinebook Pro and I installed the new mainline u-boot that came with a Manjaro update and then it wouldn't boot.
Or when I switched to the Manjaro U-Boot BSP package and found it wouldn't boot, and my SD card wouldn't boot either. (Because I'd installed the same and forgot.)
In the latter case, it looked like sed damage. extlinux.conf went from identifying the root partition as root=LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO to root=LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO_MNJRO , and then it couldn't find the root filesystem. (Previously, it had been auto-updated from LABEL=ROOT to LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO.) Hopefully on a distro with extensive procedures for vetting stable releases bugs like that would be less likely to remain. I also had a Pinephone running Manjaro ARM become unusable after updating the system without touching the bootloader, as I mentioned recently. Every app started would crash while loading, including the terminal.
It's much more of a problem on anything mobile like a laptop or a telephone because you're less likely to be near another linux system you can use to diagnose and fix the problem.
With regard to backups, I'm back to doing those daily anyway. A diff from yesterday with the right filters can take 10 seconds to run.
Or when I switched to the Manjaro U-Boot BSP package and found it wouldn't boot, and my SD card wouldn't boot either. (Because I'd installed the same and forgot.)
In the latter case, it looked like sed damage. extlinux.conf went from identifying the root partition as root=LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO to root=LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO_MNJRO , and then it couldn't find the root filesystem. (Previously, it had been auto-updated from LABEL=ROOT to LABEL=ROOT_MNJRO.) Hopefully on a distro with extensive procedures for vetting stable releases bugs like that would be less likely to remain. I also had a Pinephone running Manjaro ARM become unusable after updating the system without touching the bootloader, as I mentioned recently. Every app started would crash while loading, including the terminal.
It's much more of a problem on anything mobile like a laptop or a telephone because you're less likely to be near another linux system you can use to diagnose and fix the problem.
With regard to backups, I'm back to doing those daily anyway. A diff from yesterday with the right filters can take 10 seconds to run.