junker00627

The initramfs also needs the lvm progs to be built in, not just the kernel. I use genkernel --no-mrproper --lvm --no-splash all maybe try genkernel initramfs --no-clean --lvm

I update every 2nd or 3rd week, if an error i wait a week n try again. This issue has been ongoing a month or so. Have googled a lot and read these forums but at a loss how to fix it. A really old kernel still boots from menu but two recent ones do not. ie ego boot update has failed. is "manual" grub cmd line available ? # ego boot update ERROR: Ego encountered an unexpected error: UnicodeDecodeError ERROR: Full traceback written to /tmp/ego-traceback-23011.txt. # cat /tmp/ego-traceback-23011.txt 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x94 in position 1494: invalid start byteTraceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/ego", line 120, in <module> EgoModule.run_ego_module(action, econfig, args, VERSION) File "/usr/share/ego/python/ego/module.py", line 110, in run_ego_module ego_module(*args) File "/usr/share/ego/python/ego/module.py", line 95, in __call__ self.handle() File "/usr/share/ego/modules/boot.ego", line 256, in handle handler() File "/usr/share/ego/modules/boot.ego", line 224, in update_action boot_menu = BootLoaderMenu(self.get_extension(self.boot_options), self.boot_config) File "/usr/share/ego/modules/boot.ego", line 148, in get_extension self._ext = self.ext_module.getExtension(self.boot_config, self.config, boot_options, self) File "/usr/share/ego/python/funtoo/boot/extensions/grub.py", line 16, in getExtension return GRUBExtension(boot_config, config, boot_options, ego_module) File "/usr/share/ego/python/funtoo/boot/extensions/grub.py", line 23, in __init__ super().__init__(boot_config, config, boot_options, ego_module) File "/usr/share/ego/python/funtoo/boot/extension.py", line 29, in __init__ self.resolver = Resolver(boot_config, config, boot_options, ego_module) File "/usr/share/ego/python/funtoo/boot/resolver.py", line 48, in __init__ self.fstabinfo = fstabInfo(self.config.root_path) File "/usr/share/ego/python/funtoo/boot/helper.py", line 18, in __init__ for line in fn.readlines(): File "/usr/lib/python-exec/python3.7/../../../lib/python3.7/codecs.py", line 322, in decode (result, consumed) = self._buffer_decode(data, self.errors, final) UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x94 in position 1494: invalid start byte # locale LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8" LC_TIME="en_US.utf8" LC_COLLATE=C LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8" LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8" LC_NAME="en_US.utf8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL= have tried various 'LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 ego boot update' 'LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" ego boot update' 'LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8" ego boot update' but am missing what file it is choking on. pls advise.