ing?

   Should I just downgrade those packages (kernel and mdadm) and see if 
that works, or is there are more systematic way to approach this. I'm 
proficient in a lot of areas, but unfortunately diagnosing what went 
wrong from the recovery console isn't one of them. (I'd generally boot 
the install CD and chroot the system and go at it that way).

   Anybody able to provide any guidance on how to recover the 6.18.13 
setup, or what information I need to check to see why it's failing? My 
only inclination is the download and burn a new install CD, chroot and 
try rebuilding initramfs? Curiously, the new initramfs is quite a bit 
smaller than LTS:

-rw-------  1 root root 10250207 Feb 26 21:42 initramfs-linux-lts.img
-rw-------  1 root root  9633236 Feb 26 21:43 initramfs-linux.img

   I always check the "Latest News" feed for any gotchas before 
upgrading the server, and there was nothing this time, but...

   Something went very wrong -- help...


   The list full list of packages updated were:

Packages (70)

adwaita-fonts-50.0-1  apparmor-4.1.6-2  bubblewrap-0.11.0-2 
ca-certificates-mozilla-3.121-1 cpupower-6.19.3-1  ddrescue-1.30-2 
deno-2.7.1-1  fasm-1.73.35-1  feh-3.11.3-1  firefox-148.0-1 gawk-5.4.0-1 
  giac-2.0.0.21-1  glslang-1:1.4.341.0-2  gpgme-2.0.1-3 
gst-libav-1.28.1-1 gst-plugins-bad-1.28.1-1 
gst-plugins-bad-libs-1.28.1-1  gst-plugins-base-1.28.1-1 
gst-plugins-base-libs-1.28.1-1  gst-plugins-good-1.28.1-1 
gstreamer-1.28.1-1  inkscape-1.4.3-4 libfyaml-0.9.5-1 
libid3tag-0.16.4-1  libinih-62-2  libkeccak-1.4.3-1  libksba-1.6.8-1 
libldac-2.0.2.3-3 libmaxminddb-1.13.2-1  libngtcp2-1.21.0-1 
libplacebo-7.360.0-2  libreoffice-still-25.8.5-2 libxmp-4.7.0-1 
linux-6.18.13.arch1-1  linux-docs-6.18.13.arch1-1 
linux-firmware-20260221-1 linux-firmware-amdgpu-20260221-1 
linux-firmware-atheros-20260221-1  linux-firmware-broadcom-20260221-1 
linux-firmware-cirrus-20260221-1  linux-firmware-intel-20260221-1 
linux-firmware-mediatek-20260221-1 linux-firmware-nvidia-20260221-1 
linux-firmware-other-20260221-1  linux-firmware-radeon-20260221-1 
linux-firmware-realtek-20260221-1  linux-firmware-whence-20260221-1 
linux-headers-6.18.13.arch1-1 mdadm-4.5-1  mesa-1:26.0.1-1  nss-3.121-1 
openmpi-5.0.10-1  parallel-20260222-1  poppler-26.02.0-2 
poppler-glib-26.02.0-2  poppler-qt6-26.02.0-2  postgresql-18.3-1 
postgresql-docs-18.3-1 postgresql-libs-18.3-1 
python-chardet-6.0.0.post1-1  python-platformdirs-4.9.3-1 
python-pypdf-6.7.3-1 python-requests-2.32.5-4  sha3sum-1.2.4-1 
shaderc-2026.1-2  spandsp-0.0.6-7  spirv-tools-1:1.4.341.0-2 
vim-9.2.0067-1  vim-runtime-9.2.0067-1  xkeyboard-config-2.47-1


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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.6.18.13 and updated mdadm (RAID1) won't boot, dropped to recovery console, LTS fine - help?David C Rankin <drankinatty@gmail.com> undefinedarch-general@lists.archlinux.org undefinedł`†ˇ_