manjaro update notes

Not a smooth update this time, but I think that's on me. I blame my own process at this point - I feel like an arch pretender who doesn't really know what's going on. The more time i spend in it, the more I learn I don't know. Here's my notes anyway!

Apparently the linux60 kernel I'm on is already old, and my usual update process was blocked by nvidia-525 vs nvidia-530 updates. Reading the manjaro update post, it seemed like I should try to move to linux61 or linux62 - doing that via mhwd was also blocked by the same nvidia-525/530 errors...

Eventually I remember that pamac upgrade was a thing, so just went for it, and it updated everything, no problem. What's the difference? I'm not sure.

I also updated my /etc/default/grub file (but later reverted the changes). I thought the cryptodisk bit applied to me - it does, but not in a grub context(?).

rebooting, unlocking the cryptodisk, and choosing a kernel all worked fine. But then, the issue: the Starting systemd-udevd with 5.29.blah-manjaro (whatever version) hung forever.

I was able to jump to a tty with ctrl-alt-f*, and couldn't find any errors or anything. Eventually I opted to install linux62-nvidia, and also nvidia-settings (tho I'm not sure if this one was necessary).

After that, rebooting was fine.

maybe cool to learn