[kinda solved] All the system is down and I need my files badly!
I'm using gnome and sometimes when the screen goes blank and you need to retype your password to restore it... well, sometimes it was blank for a while (about 5 seconds) so I was just wandering with my cursor for a while as it was like 30 seconds now... my cursor changed into this "you can type here" mode so I just typed my login, clicked enter and then the password and enter again... then it all went into "no move" state so I changed my display with ctrl+alt+F2 and rebooted the system. It didn't open gdm at all, I had just a terminal (now typing from my laptop). So I typed "gdm" but it went like this:
** (gdm-binary:1242: WARNING **: Failed to aquire org.gnome.DisplayManager: Connection ":1.13" is not allowed to own the service "org.gnome.DisplayManager" due to security policies in the configuration file
** (gdm-binary:1242: WARNING **: could not acquire name; bailing out
With sudo it was almost the same but shorter:
** (gdm-binary:1242: WARNING **: Failed to aquire org.gnome.DisplayManager
** (gdm-binary:1242: WARNING **: could not acquire name; bailing out
With "gnome-session" even shorter:
** (gnome-session:1256): WARNING **": Cannot open display:
So I thought I sould just reinstall all the gnome but I used -Syyu before that. Effect:
error: failed retrieving file core.db from mirrors.kernel.org : No address record
It failed to synchronize any database!
So if pacman and gnome are down in the same time... what could happen? All the configuration and home files are present on the disk (I guess).
At boot, it goes:
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory
And I guess the important part of the story is that I'm ussing barriers=0 with ext4...
Last edited by Włóczymyśl (2011-06-16 11:28:26)
litemotiv wrote:It sounds like it's time to chroot and perform a full pacman update from there. If the problem persists, reinstall the kernel. If the problem still persists, reinstall grub.
Well, I did the 1st and it was impossible to do so I did the 2nd and it was still bad (other errors thought) so I did the 1st again and it worked but the system was still not booting (yet other errors thought) so I did the 3rd and it still was bad... so I turned to this proposal:
ewaller wrote:You could also try booting the system any way you can (livecd, usb), mount your root partition somewhere, mount your boot partition somewhere else (not at /boot on the root partition), and copy the files from your root partition's /boot to the boot partition.
but it didn't worked either... now I'm stuck with:
Root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxxxxxxx' doesn't exist. Attempting to create it.
ERROR: Unable to determinate major/minor number of root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/xxxxxxxxxxxx'.
You are being dropped to a recovery shell
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
while booting. It's too much for me... ^^'
Edit: 'exit' didn't solve the situation of course.
Last edited by Włóczymyśl (2011-06-15 16:03:37)
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