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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I've had updates fail on NixOS. A kernel update didn't generate the initramfs and the system wouldn't boot. Booting to a previous generation and reapplying the update fixed it.

This is very rare, though, and unlike Arch can be fixed without a Live USB.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    A kernel update didn't generate the initramfs

    This sounds like a bug on Nix configuration, or the kernel build process.

    If NixOS had caught the error, you wouldn't have gotten a faulty generation at all. This is different from pacman/apt/dnf, which will happily continue the upgrade, resulting in a broken system with no easy way to fix it.

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