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Oct 23, 2026

From the trauma of an unbootable kernel update to staying current safely instead of pinning

Ever since an out-of-tree USB WiFi driver (8821au) broke on an Arch kernel update — leaving a machine that booted but had no network — I had pinned the kernel with IgnorePkg and stopped updating. This is how I fixed it at the root: dropped the culprit DKMS driver for in-tree only, added linux-lts as a fallback, removed the pin, and caught up to the latest. Includes the partial-upgrade trap and the linux-firmware split conflict.

Oct 23, 20264 min read0 reactions0 comments