Current upgrade borked at initrd
 

Hi,

I made a mistake and restarted the window manager when slackpkg upgrade-all was running.
My system has an (almost) full disk encryption setup and a volume group inside of it.

I already chrooted to the disk from other OS, but couldn't still solve the issue.

At the boot, initrd complains
LUKS device /dev/nvme0n1p2 unavailable for unlocking!

then consequent mount error:
mounting /dev/cryptvg/root on /mnt failed: no such file or directory.

At the the prompt, when running cryptsetup:

/lib64/libcrypto.so.3: version OPENSSL_3.2.0 not found (required by /usr/lib64/libcryptsetup.so.12).

Probably, it's still necessary to upgrade some packages, but slackpkg upgrade-all doesn't seem to find any to upgrade.
I've already deleted the contents of /var/log/packages.

What should I do?

Since you can chroot internet connected , try these:
1. slackpkg reinstall slackpkg
2. slackpkg update
3. slackpkg reinstall openssl libcryptsetup
4. slackpkg reinstall kernel
5. slackpkg reinstall mkinitrd
6. mkinitrd -k $(uname -r) -r /dev/cryptvg/root -L
7. update bootloader
8. exit-reboot

good luck !!

Sounds to me like your upgrade was successful, but then you aborted the process by killing your X session. Probably the only thing you need to do is generate a working initrd.
Use that other OS to chroot into your installation and then run "geninitrd" as root. That should give you a working initrd.

And for future reference: NEVER run an OS upgrade while you are inside an X or Wayland session! Always switch to runlevel 3 (or 1) before starting your upgrade.

cryptsetup error is an issue with the OpenSSL libraries, need reinstall.

It was the Slackware package database. Now pkgtools and slackpkg think you don't have any packages installed.

Thank you all!
I took the suggestions, generated the new initrd and the system can boot again.

/var/run/needs_restarting keeps saying that some installed or upgraded packages may need reboot:
openssl-solibs-3.3.0-x86_64-1
openssl-3.3.0-x86_64-1

This feature is something that I didn't know about in Slackware, is it a new thing?
How can it be cleared?

Will it cause any problems for other system upgrades?