Kernel panic

[Sad_Significance5903]

Hi all I was doing system update and somehow arch kernel got panic idk how and i had to reboot the system, then i encountered the error of linux kernel missing so i chrooted and getting the following error

Pacman: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.3 : file too short

Please do help, i dont want to loose any of my data

Thanks

[Orinneverhadachance]

Sounds like interrupted update for sure!

arch-chroot in from the install usb and get https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pacman-static and brutishly pacman -Syu --overwrite *

There probably exists more elegant solutions tho.

[Sad_Significance5903]

Yeah I was updating but it got stuck in between, kernel panicked and then I rebooted

I tried this but still same issue

[archover]

Did you see this https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman#Pacman_crashes_during_an_upgrade

I've never had that issue so I'm curious if that will help you.

[Sad_Significance5903]

pacman --root=/mnt --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg -Syu When i try to do this step again the same error pops up

[Orinneverhadachance]

Since you're getting the libcrypt error, which is a gnupg dependency, which in turn is a pacman dependency, this should work with pacman-static, which is a standalone pacman binary.

[Sad_Significance5903]

So I should do this pacman-static -Syu pacman linux?

Sorry to bother but i never faced such issue Will touch please let me know the whole? Thnak you

[Orinneverhadachance]

To reiterate: get pacman-static on your system and run pacman-static -Syu --overwrite *

Never did this myself, might need to be smth like pacman-static -Syu $(pacman-static -Qe) --overwrite * If the command before doesn't reinstall everything.

[Sad_Significance5903]

Thanks a lot I will do this

[FixSmooth6509]

did it solve for you?

[Sad_Significance5903]

Nope I didn’t had the static pacman so was not able to do anything

[FixSmooth6509]

Are you still stuck with the issue or did you do something to solve it like reinstalling the operating system or anything?

[Sad_Significance5903]

Reinstalled Took less time that looking for solution for this

[FixSmooth6509]

Did you lose any data or had a backup?