It's rare, but when it happens it's indeed annoying.

Last night I ran the updates on my #ArchLinux system and noticing there was a new kernel version I shut down my machine instead of suspending it as usual.

This morning my OS wasn't booting.

I thought it was my fault and tried to revert some stuff I was trying by chrooting into my system from a usb.

No luck, until I tried to boot into the backup LTS kernel, and it worked.

Turns out the update broke something with the nvidia driver.

#linux

Now they fix it with an update to the nvidia driver, but this caused me a whole morning wasted trying to troubleshoot something that wasn't my fault.

I get why in corporate environments nobody uses Arch...it's great, but it can be a bit unpredictable with its rolling updates system.

@mauro This is why I really like running arch with btrfs and snapper. Snap-pac creates a btrfs snapshot whenever I install packages and updates, and I have it setup so I can boot into readonly snapshots, so at least I have a functional system even if there was an issue.

I had the same issue with nvidia for many years, which is why I switched to AMD and haven't looked back.