So about a month back, I did a garuda-upgrade and mid-way through the process, my computer got restarted for some reason and I can never boot back into the Garuda system again, I'm guessing it is because some of the packages are out of sync and on different versions (or something like that). I ended up trying to fix it using chroot, but nothing I tried ever worked. Restoring an older snapshot isn't an option as well, because every time I do so, the snapshot does not get restored for some reason. After all that happened, I decided to just move some stuff to windows, such as my files, and use windows from then on.
Since school is starting soon, I want to revert back to using Linux again, so today, I installed another Garuda system onto my laptop SSD, afterwards, I decided to try to boot into a snapshot of my old system but I couldn't because the Grub layout was completely different as I installed a new Garuda Linux. I then proceeded to uninstall the new system in order to try to be able to boot back into a snapshot, I got my old grub layout back, but when I try to boot into one of the snapshots, it displays this (already tried several different snapshots, none worked):
Loading Snapshot: 2022-06-26 19:19:04 @/.snapshot/454/snapshot
Loading Kernel: vmlinuz-linux-zen ...
452: out of range pointer: 0x8883356400
Aborted. Press any key to exit.
Can someone explain to me a way of booting back into the snapshot? That is the only problem I need to resolve, as after I boot back, I just have a few more things to move and save, such as some logins and browser profiles, then I can do a fresh install of Garuda again.
This solution finally worked, thank you! It fixed both grub (where I get booted straight to the grub terminal and have to manually set some stuff to have it boot properly) and the problem I was having with the snapshots.
I've tried this already a few weeks prior. Every time I try to open btrfs-assistant through the start menu, it prompts me for my password, but afterward, nothing happens. If I just run btrfs-assistant through the terminal, it shows:
qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0
qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in " " even though it was found.
This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem.
Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, waylang-egl, wayland, wayland-xcomposite-egl, wayland-xcomposite-glx, xcb.
/usr/bin/btrfs-assistant: line 27: 5003 Aborted (core dumped) btrfs-assistant-bin ${params}
Could you explain how it could be made so that btrfs-assistant will be able to support the wayland, just incase something like this happens in the future and don't have the time to start from scratch and move everything to a new system.
So last night I did a clean install of Garuda once I finished backing up everything. On the new system, when I try to open btrfs-assistant, it still shows the exact same thing in the terminal.
I don't want to answer for @bourrasque, but mine is 1.6.3 and I took an update yesterday. The behavior is the same, either launching from the terminal or the NWG menu. The workaround with the -E flag still works.