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  • Recent update switched to LTS kernel, boot fails, manual steps required.

I did a rollback and it's currently working as before. So some other package was causing issues (possibly with lightdm). I'll try to look into this further when I have some extra time, but I wasted enough time as it is trying to get it to work, and I'll need this laptop working tomorrow for work.

Chrym @kyrios may be able to shed some light on that, I'm not sure why that's a runtime dependency for virtualbox itself. I don't think it needs to be.

      InFamousM All I know so far is that you will need to boot a Solus .ISO and mount your hard drive to be able to update the broken files.

        SuperJC710e Hello. Were you able to fix this?

        Trying the directions to mount EFI and my OS boot sector here https://getsol.us/articles/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/en/

        but having no luck. "unknown filesystem type 'LVM2_member' message after mounting to the /target dir.

        Updates have become very problematic with this OS to the point that I am no longer saving any files on local disk. Chances are you will lose that data after a simple update. Needs to be addressed.

          GueGuerreiro thx, didn't notice that normal one is LTS.

          sudo eopkg search virtualbox
          Passwort:
          minikube-dbginfo - Debug symbols for minikube
          minikube - Kubernetes development environment
          virtualbox - VirtualBox host modules for the linux-lts kernel
          virtualbox-common - Common components for VirtualBox host packages
          virtualbox-guest-common - Common components for the VirtualBox guest packages
          virtualbox-guest - VirtualBox guest additions for the linux-lts kernel
          virtualbox-32bit-dbginfo - 32-bit debug symbols for virtualbox
          virtualbox-dbginfo - Debug symbols for virtualbox
          virtualbox-devel - Development components for VirtualBox
          virtualbox-current - VirtualBox host modules for the linux-current kernel

          it even is described as LTS Version

            kyrios We should think about flipping that now that -current is default. Pretty sure that dates back to the -lts days.

                kyrios as I said: I'm to stupid to read descriptions 🙂

                  DataDrake Indeed. It currently follows the same naming convention as the other drivers so if we change this for vbox, we'll probably want to do it for the other packages to be consistent.

                    @DataDrake i tried your suggestions, but when i boot the LTS kernel i still only get a blinking cursor. Current kernel boots fine, but i cannot use it as it is still lagging as hell and freezes completely after some time on the XPS 9560.

                    The blinking cursor issue was also there a couple of updates ago ☹️

                    Anything else i can try?

                      pappkamerad I think there was a regression with the LTS kernel on some newer hardware. We are all waiting on upstream to release a new version. I'll be creating a post shortly to get some feedback around LTS.

                          3 years later

                          DataDrake This was helpful for me today. Ran update to get the latest firefox & brave updates with other stuff, and it returned this for the second time in a week :

                          The Manual changing may have helped me, Thank You so Much !!

                              I have 3 drives on my system, Windows 10, linux Solus on one and a fresh install of Solus on another. Right now, i am having issues trying to both: connect to Twitch on the Fresh install-- (Which shows "Unsupported Browser Type") even after updating the OS, the other version on Solus was....my bad, typed in commands to force an update of the kernel to 'clr-boot-manager' which..has erased the boot record/and/or messed up its ability to boot.....the Kernel is the 6.3.6-239 and its not working. the edit menu command line does not allow for clr-boot-manager to work/run.
                              So, to get around the unsupported browser type issue, i tried installing a VPN, when i try to activate it, the KDE-wallet pops up asking for a password. so, i went to settings and tried to disable it...but it seems i don't have permission to turn that off, and thus, the VPN will not connect. Being objective oriented, I booted in windows 10...and it connected to twitch. In the meantime, i'm stuck needing a means of re-installing and/or grafting a new kernel to my Primary Solus installation. Any ideas/help?

                              Please either put this into an issue report, or another forum thread instead of keeping on adding to this very old thread.

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