Pacman -Syu after a major makeworld

so its like this a made a makewordl to oficcial an unoficcial packages
them one day e made pacman -Syu just in case new stuf appeared
after its finishes it askes if i want to upgrade some pakages e say Y
but its stops the upgrade . the error is something like
xcdroast exists in filesistem it shows the full patch but im to lazy to rigth it all .
did i do something wrong ?? can i fix it ? thanks

when did did you do this upgrade?
does this error still occur?
i had not realized that xcdroast had appeared in the unofficial tree twice so i removed one of the enteries. you may have been accessing the unofficial tree at this time.

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[Solved] Cant get fglrx to load after an overdue pacman -Syu

I tried to launch steam tonight after doing a long overdue pacman -Syu yesterday, and it gave an error about GL. Upon closer inspection, no GL apps will run, giving similar errors:
$ glxgears
X Error of failed request: BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)
Major opcode of failed request: 155 (ATIFGLEXTENSION)
Minor opcode of failed request: 66 ()
Serial number of failed request: 13
Current serial number in output stream: 13
Here's what I've been able to track down:
The fglrx module isnt loading. When I try to load it manually:
$ sudo modprobe fglrx
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'fglrx': Exec format error
I checked in the Xorg error log:
$ sudo grep '(WW)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 18.980] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fglrx
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:17:0) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:18:0) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:18:1) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:18:2) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:19:0) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:19:1) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:19:2) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:0) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:1) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:2) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:3) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:4) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:20:5) found
[ 19.147] (WW) fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@1:0:1) found
[ 19.700] (WW) fglrx(0): board is an unknown third party board, chipset is supported
[ 20.668] (WW) fglrx(0): Dynamic Surface Resizing cannot be enabled
[ 20.672] (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************************
[ 20.672] (WW) fglrx(0): * DRI initialization failed *
[ 20.672] (WW) fglrx(0): * kernel module (fglrx.ko) may be missing or incompatible *
[ 20.672] (WW) fglrx(0): * 2D and 3D acceleration disabled *
[ 20.672] (WW) fglrx(0): ***********************************************************
[ 20.708] (WW) fglrx(0): Textured Video not supported without DRI enabled.
[ 21.076] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "VendorName" is not used
[ 21.076] (WW) fglrx(0): Option "ModelName" is not used
I'm using the unofficial pacman repo from Vi0l0, so I also tried his catalyst-hook package, and the catalyst and catalyst-hook packages from AUR, running catalyst_build_module all and rebooting a couple times, but with no success. (his repos seem to have newer versions of the packages anyways)
Any idea what the root of the problem might be, or what I should try next?
my kernel is:
$ uname -r
3.10.10-1-ARCH
Last edited by jxhcc (2013-09-17 06:14:02)

Ok, so I'm gonna go ahead and answer my own question! (This is why I dont usually post in forums!)
I installed catalyst-test from AUR. Everything is fine now.
Guess I didnt see that the first time looking through the older forum posts.

[SOLVED] Black screen after kernel boot after pacman -Syu

Hi, after full system upgrade with pacman -Syu, I get after the kernel boot black screen and everything is freezing. Then need to manually shut down the power button!
Normally when my system starts up after the kernel boot I get straight to the command line terminal login.
Can anybody help me how to fix this? Any clues? Any advice is welcome!
The problem is solved by downgrading to kernel 3.6.11.-1
Many thanks for the help from the people on #archlinux !
Last edited by OpenEye (2013-01-29 05:14:04)

jasonwryan wrote:
Please stop bumping your thread: use the edit button
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping
What have you done about the errors being printed to your logs? You could start by fixing the network error and the broken udev rule...
Are you still using intiscripts? They are no longer supported: https://www.archlinux.org/news/end-of-i … s-support/
# edit: not a pacman issue, moving to Newbie Corner
I have searched for many hours and days for solutions on the internet and forums, tried some things, but with no results! I don't know how to fix the errors! Do you know how to fix that? I'm a total n00b! I'm doing my best as I can! Need help, thanks!

Computer freezes after pacman -Syu

Did a pacman -Syu and then rebooted after some programs did not work. When rebooting I get
************FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED****************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *
* file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount *
* it read-write: mount -n -o remount,rw / *
* When you exit the maintenance shell the will *
* reboot automatically. *
checked drives with fsck and get
/dev/sda3 : Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while reading block 1545
/dev/sda3 : Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read reading journal superblock
/dev/sda3 : Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while checking ext3 journal for /dev/sda3
sda is my second drive for backups and documents/music/photos
sdb is the root/boot/swap drive
I commented out /dev/sda3 in fstab and arch booted up but got to the last line which is starting kde??(don't know for sure cause it scrolls by so fast) and then I get a black screen with a steady cursor. I cannot ctl+alt+ anything to get to a tty or out of that screen. So I cannot check any logs or files and I don't know what to do now when the only thing I have been able to do is restart the computer and the same thing happens all over.
I guess I need to get a bootable cd (live cd) to get arch up and try to get a terminal to find problems. But reading the instructions for live cd it appears that I have to be in arch first. I am borrowing a windows computer to get on the internet and research. How can I burn a live arch cd in a windows system?
Or is there something else to try??

I'll bet that skottish will kindly ask you to not cross post and direct people to your other post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65113

[SOLVED] Pacman issue after -Syu

Hello guys,
This morning I did a full update with "pacman -Syu", before that, I also did an installation for gnome and gnome-extra as well as openoffice. There were some connection loss during the update and perhaps some packages failed to be retrieved, however, I repeated "pacman -Syu" and install the packages again and again until it showed that everything was installed.
But after that, every time I execute the pacman command, I always get the message "error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community/chrootuid-1.3-3/desc: No such file or directory", it still shows that "local db is up to date" though, however, it seems like virtualbox isn't installable as "pacman -S virtualbox-ose" returns a "not found" error.
Please give me your solution about this
Thank you
Last edited by Himari (2010-02-23 03:17:07)

Pacman -Syy did the trick, but I also need to change to another mirror as well, I suppose there was something wrong with the previous mirror.
Thank you all for your help

[solved]many segfault after a pacman -Syu

bad luck gnome-* got segfault after a pacman -Syu. that including gedit, empathy, nautilus, epiphany, gnome-screensaver.... gnome is simply half dead!!! somebody help!
[update]pls scroll down to bsdson.tw #9 for a work around.
Last edited by semson (2011-09-04 14:58:19)

here is the pacman log, x86_64
[2011-09-03 20:15] Running 'pacman -Syu'
[2011-09-03 20:15] synchronizing package lists
[2011-09-03 20:15] starting full system upgrade
[2011-09-03 20:18] removed pygobject-devel (2.28.6-1)
[2011-09-03 20:18] removed py3gobject (2.28.6-1)
[2011-09-03 20:18] removed pygobject (2.28.6-1)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded libglapi (7.11-1 -> 7.11-2)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded libgl (7.11-1 -> 7.11-2)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded ati-dri (7.11-1 -> 7.11-2)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded bzr (2.3.4-1 -> 2.4.0-1)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded ca-certificates (20110502-1 -> 20110502+nmu1-1)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded gnutls (3.0.1-1 -> 3.0.2-1)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded libcups (1.4.8-2 -> 1.5.0-1)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded gtk-update-icon-cache (2.24.5-3 -> 2.24.6-2)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded gtk2 (2.24.5-3 -> 2.24.6-2)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded nss (3.12.11-1 -> 3.12.11-3)
[2011-09-03 20:18] upgraded libevent (2.0.12-1 -> 2.0.13-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded chromium (13.0.782.215-1 -> 13.0.782.218-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded clutter-gtk (1.0.0-1 -> 1.0.2-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded evolution-data-server (3.0.2.1-2 -> 3.0.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded fakeroot (1.17-1 -> 1.18-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded firefox (6.0-1 -> 6.0.1-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded firefox-i18n (6.0-2 -> 6.0.1-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] updating gtk immodules... done.
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded gcin (1.6.4-2 -> 1.6.5-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded icedtea-web (1.1.1-1 -> 1.1.2-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded imlib2 (1.4.4-1 -> 1.4.5-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded lib32-libcups (1.4.5-2 -> 1.5.0-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded lib32-gtk2 (2.24.5-1 -> 2.24.6-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded lib32-keyutils (1.4-1 -> 1.5.2-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libdvbpsi (0.2.0-1 -> 0.2.1-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libreoffice-zh-TW (3.4.2-1 -> 3.4.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libreoffice-common (3.4.2-2 -> 3.4.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libreoffice-calc (3.4.2-2 -> 3.4.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libreoffice-extension-pdfimport (3.4.2-2 -> 3.4.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libreoffice-extension-presentation-minimizer (3.4.2-2 -> 3.4.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libreoffice-gnome (3.4.2-2 -> 3.4.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libreoffice-impress (3.4.2-2 -> 3.4.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libreoffice-writer (3.4.2-2 -> 3.4.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded libwnck (2.30.6-2 -> 2.30.7-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] upgraded linux-firmware (20110727-1 -> 20110822-1)
[2011-09-03 20:19] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2011-09-03 20:19] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Starting build: 3.0-ARCH
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2011-09-03 20:19] 7210 blocks
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Image generation successful
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Starting build: 3.0-ARCH
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2011-09-03 20:19] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2011-09-03 20:19] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2011-09-03 20:20] 23822 blocks
[2011-09-03 20:20] ==> Image generation successful
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded linux (3.0.3-1 -> 3.0.4-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded linux-headers (3.0.3-1 -> 3.0.4-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded mesa (7.11-1 -> 7.11-2)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded polkit (0.101-2 -> 0.102-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] installed pygobject2-devel (2.28.6-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] installed python-gobject2 (2.28.6-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] installed python2-gobject2 (2.28.6-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded qt (4.7.3-3 -> 4.7.4-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded telepathy-logger (0.2.10-1 -> 0.2.10-2)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded vim-runtime (7.3.266-1 -> 7.3.289-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded vim (7.3.266-1 -> 7.3.289-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded wget (1.13.1-1 -> 1.13.3-1)
[2011-09-03 20:20] Updating font cache... done.
[2011-09-03 20:20] wqy-zenhei post install message
[2011-09-03 20:20] ==> Special Note: By default, we disabled the embedded bitmaps,
[2011-09-03 20:20] so that the characters will be displayed as Anti-aliased glyphs.
[2011-09-03 20:20] For those who want to use bitmap font rendering (for 9pt-12pt),
[2011-09-03 20:20] you can modify the enclosed 44-wqy-zenhei.conf and change the line
[2011-09-03 20:20] <edit name=\"embeddedbitmap\"><bool>false</bool></edit>
[2011-09-03 20:20] to
[2011-09-03 20:20] <edit name=\"embeddedbitmap\"><bool>true</bool></edit>"
[2011-09-03 20:20]
[2011-09-03 20:20] Remove 44-wqy-zenhei.conf and 66-wqy-zenhei-sharp.conf symlinks
[2011-09-03 20:20] from /etc/fonts/conf.d/ directory if you have problems with this
[2011-09-03 20:20] package.
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded wqy-zenhei (0.9.45-1 -> 0.9.45-2)
[2011-09-03 20:20] upgraded xulrunner (6.0-2 -> 6.0.1-1)
Last edited by semson (2011-09-04 07:10:04)

[SOLVED] Broken SLiM after pacman -Syu

I know that it's good to understand the rolling release approach from ArchLinux and that an update may have unforeseen consequences.
Yesterday I wasn't that smart and updated my system using pacman -Syu. I'm having the system with SLiM and Cinnamon on top. Now
when I login I get the message: "failed to execute login command".
I already googled the error (SLIM+error) here: https://www.google.nl/#q=slim%20error%2 … %20command
And I've checked .xinitrc and slim.conf. everything looks just fine.
When I put in my ArchLinux cd, boot from it, /mnt my /dev/SDA1, bash and try to see what error I get from the system then I see a message
about PulseAudio (but guess my check was useless ). Anyway, my Pacman log is down here, my log from SLiM and Xorg.
Pacman:
http://pastebin.com/Pe03DVNm
Xorg.0:
http://pastebin.com/AhVnQvex
SLiM:
http://pastebin.com/3LdcUBPc
Am I that stupid? Guess so but well, who can help me out without reinstalling my system?
My image I built with CloneZilla was corrupted so I'm kind of lost for now.
Last edited by Anoniem (2013-10-14 10:00:17)

.xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
exec gnome-session-cinnamon
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice
slim.conf:
# Path, X server and arguments (if needed)
# Note: -xauth $authfile is automatically appended
default_path /bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
default_xserver /usr/bin/X
xserver_arguments -nolisten tcp vt07
# Commands for halt, login, etc.
halt_cmd /sbin/shutdown -h now
reboot_cmd /sbin/shutdown -r now
console_cmd /usr/bin/xterm -C -fg white -bg black +sb -T "Console login" -e /bin/sh -c "/bin/cat /etc/issue; exec /bin/login"
#suspend_cmd /usr/sbin/suspend
# Full path to the xauth binary
xauth_path /usr/bin/xauth
# Xauth file for server
authfile /var/run/slim.auth
# Activate numlock when slim starts. Valid values: on|off
# numlock on
# Hide the mouse cursor (note: does not work with some WMs).
# Valid values: true|false
# hidecursor false
# This command is executed after a succesful login.
# you can place the %session and %theme variables
# to handle launching of specific commands in .xinitrc
# depending of chosen session and slim theme
# NOTE: if your system does not have bash you need
# to adjust the command according to your preferred shell,
# i.e. for freebsd use:
# login_cmd exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
login_cmd exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session
# Commands executed when starting and exiting a session.
# They can be used for registering a X11 session with
# sessreg. You can use the %user variable
# sessionstart_cmd some command
# sessionstop_cmd some command
# Start in daemon mode. Valid values: yes | no
# Note that this can be overriden by the command line
# options "-d" and "-nodaemon"
# daemon yes
# Available sessions (first one is the default).
# The current chosen session name is replaced in the login_cmd
# above, so your login command can handle different sessions.
# see the xinitrc.sample file shipped with slim sources
sessions xfce4,icewm-session,wmaker,blackbox
# Executed when pressing F11 (requires imagemagick)
screenshot_cmd import -window root /slim.png
# welcome message. Available variables: %host, %domain
welcome_msg Welcome to %host
# Session message. Prepended to the session name when pressing F1
# session_msg Session:
# shutdown / reboot messages
shutdown_msg The system is halting...
reboot_msg The system is rebooting...
# default user, leave blank or remove this line
# for avoid pre-loading the username.
default_user farid
# Focus the password field on start when default_user is set
# Set to "yes" to enable this feature
#focus_password no
# Automatically login the default user (without entering
# the password. Set to "yes" to enable this feature
auto_login no
# current theme, use comma separated list to specify a set to
# randomly choose from
current_theme archlinux
# Lock file
lockfile /var/lock/slim.lock
# Log file
logfile /var/log/slim.log

[SOLVED] X fails after pacman -Syu

After a year or so without upgrading (not recommended) I did a pacman -Syu; it took like ages 'cause I was on kernel 2.26, and now my arch is a complete mess: user modules don't load at boot, dhcpcd is not working so I don't have internet access and the X server is erratic too. Now I have to repair it step by step, and I think I should start with X.
Here is the startx/ xinit output:
[root@HAL-9000 ~]# startx
xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "HAL-9000:0" in "list" command
xauth: (stdin):1: bad display name "HAL-9000:0" in "add" command
X.Org X Server 1.11.2
Release Date: 2011-11-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.1.1-1-ARCH i686
Current Operating System: Linux HAL-9000 3.1.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Nov 11 22:05:37 UTC 2011 i686
Kernel command line: root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/67fb73d6-b981-47d1-a07c-223b5b730551 ro vga=0x0318
Build Date: 16 November 2011 11:26:40AM
Current version of pixman: 0.24.0
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Nov 20 19:02:40 2011
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
(EE) synaptics: Touchpad: Synaptics driver unable to detect protocol
(EE) PreInit returned 11 for "Touchpad"
gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries: libdevkit-power-gobject.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
xinit: connection to X server lost
waiting for X server to shut down Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file.
I guess the gnome-session error with libdevkit-powe-gobject.so.1 is what causes the x server to close. And this is the complete X log:
http://pastebin.com/UBficJVi
*note: I have a Nvdia card which already worked perfectly with the privative driver, and supposedly I still have gnome 2 (that was the only packages group I didn't upgrade)
Last edited by isacdaavid (2011-11-21 06:27:07)

isacdaavid wrote:
knopwob wrote:
isacdaavid wrote:*note: I have a Nvdia card which already worked perfectly with the privative driver, and supposedly I still have gnome 2 (that was the only packages group I didn't upgrade)
So you updated everything except gnome-stuff? Update the gnome-stuff.
But I'm all for gnome 2 , and X should work despite of the gnome version or the desktop environment. Shouldn't it?
No, not if you're using gdm or autoboot into gnome or something similar.
gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries: libdevkit-power-gobject.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
This sounds like one of gnome-sessions dependencies have been updated and isn't compatible with gnome-session anymore.
Before you continue trying to repair your system, you should read this

Boot fails after pacman -Syu

Hi, I did pacman -Syu and after this the system did not boot anymore.
I noticed 2.6.18 kernel files
First I got problem with master boot block
then I got: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
- As proposed in another topics I tried already:
in /etc/fstab
/dev/discs/disc1/part3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc1/part1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/discs/disc1/part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
changed to
/dev/hdd3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hdd1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hdd2 swap swap defaults 0 0
in /boot/grub/menu.lst
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/discs/disc1/part3 ro
changed to
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdd3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
and now I got:
Booting 'Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]'
root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdd3 ro
[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x2917b71]
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
Error 15: File not found
=============================
- I tried first to change disks/disk1/part3 to change to hdb3 but this failed. then I noticed that a Live boot disk mounted hdd1 hdd2 and hdd3
My bios configuration:
primary IDE controller CD-1
CD-2
secondary IDE controller hd-0 Win
hd-1 Arch
and now I get lost....thanks
fdiks -l tells:
Disk /dev/hdd: 10.2 GB, 10262568960 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19885 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 66 33263+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdd2 67 587 262584 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdd3 588 19885 9726192 83 Linux

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdb3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
changed to
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hdd3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26.img
and now I got:
::Initramfs completed - control passing to kinit
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays
md: autorun ...
md: .. autorun DONE.
this error is gone
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init !
and continues with:
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> Archlinux v0.7.2 (Gimmick)
:: Starting UDev Daemon
:: Loading Modules
FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.10-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory
shouldn't it be 2.6.18 ?
So it seems that CD on the primary IDE and disks on the Secondary IDE
seems to be a problem for upgrading from v0.7.0 to v0.7.2
Shouldn't I swap the IDE flatcables ?
If I should do this is the kernel26.img right for this new hw configuration ?

My 2G USB stick crash after Pacman -Syu

I want my 2G usb stick install a archlinux.
It is very difficult to install a workable GUI interface with just 2G bytes.
Finally, I succeed by choosing minimal package set carefully.
I only left a few M bytes space.
When I 'pacman -Syu', my file system full.
My question is:
1. How to prevent out of space when upgrade system?
2. How can I recover it?

In fact, I've two USB stick, the cache directory has already moved to another USB stick.
But, /usr/bin still full.
And I found some pacman information seems missing after the disk full.
I don't know how to recover my OS. Some package seems out of work.

Nm-applet,power-manager ....disappeared from panel after "pacman -Syu

i use gnome-shell ............nm-applet,power-manager ....disappeared from panel after "pacman -Syu............in pacman -Syu.... dbus was updated..............now when i type nm-applet in the panel i get :
nm-applet
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
earlier before upgrade it was working perfectly ......please help

i use gnome-shell ............nm-applet,power-manager ....disappeared from panel after "pacman -Syu............in pacman -Syu.... dbus was updated..............now when i type nm-applet in the panel i get :
nm-applet
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
earlier before upgrade it was working perfectly ......please help

Lost sound in Freevo after "pacman - Syu"

Hi!
I've been using freevo all day but after doing a "pacman -Syu" I've lost the sound. No files will play and just skips to the next. The terminal output from freevo is this:
failed to load plugin alsamixer2
start 'freevo plugins -l' to get a list of plugins
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/build/community/multimedia/freevo/pkg/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/plugin.py", line 555, in __load_plugin__
exec('import %s' % module)
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/build/community/multimedia/freevo/pkg/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/freevo/plugins/alsamixer2.py", line 35, in <module>
ImportError: No module named alsaaudio
I checked the pacman log and the files that got updated was:
[2008-07-18 16:35] synchronizing package lists
[2008-07-18 16:35] starting full system upgrade
[2008-07-18 16:36] upgraded x264 (20071202-1 -> 20080625-1)
[2008-07-18 16:36] upgraded ffmpeg (20071204-1 -> 20080625-1)
[2008-07-18 16:36] upgraded flex (2.5.33-4 -> 2.5.35-1)
[2008-07-18 16:36] upgraded pcmanfm (0.4.5-1 -> 0.5-1)
[2008-07-18 16:36] upgraded python-pysqlite (2.3.5-1 -> 2.4.1-1)
[2008-07-18 17:32] synchronizing package lists
[2008-07-18 17:32] starting full system upgrade
Does anyone know what's happened to the alsamixer2 plugin here? Did the upgrade of python-pysqlite do this? Looks like something happened when I did the last update...

I'm really not sure how to downgrade...
Where do I get the old version of the files? Like python-pysqlite-2.3.5-1...
Thanks for the help!
Nvm, I found them in the cache.
No I didn't I can't find the old versions. At least not python-pysqlite-2.3.5-1.
Last edited by Perre (2008-07-18 19:05:19)

"FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED" after pacman -Syu

Hi all,
After a sucessfull 'pacman -Syu' (in which i didnt see any 'todo' messages but it did have a kernel upgrade) archlinux cannot start and i just get to a message similar talking about my root partition (ext3):
The superblock could not be read or does not describe a correct ext2
filesystem. If the device is valid and it really contains an ext2
filesystem (and not swap or ufs or something else), then the superblock
is corrupt, and you might try running e2fsck with an alternate superblock:
e2fsck -b 8193 <device>
******************* FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED *************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root *
* filesystem is currently mounted read-only. To remount *
* it read-write type: mount -n -o remount,rw / *
* When you exit the mantenance shel the system will *
* reboot automatically. *
I restarted with a livecd and 'e2fscked' the partition (which btw found many errors that were corrected by it) but archlinux still gives me the same message. I have checked the partition again and again a thousand times but it always comes up clean, im even able to mount it from the different livecds i have tried and can read and create files on it so im pretty sure it is fine.
And so my question is, does anyone know why this is happening? How comes archlinux keeps seeing a problem in this partition when others dont? What am i doing wrong?
An y answer appreciated.
Last edited by feralert (2009-06-03 20:15:23)

Hi again,
I have done some testing, maybe it will help.
After the failure message i put roots password and i got dropped to a shell, if i try to find the root partition (eg. ls /dev/sda) gives an error cause it sda doesnt exists.
If i edit rc.sysinit with a livecd and remove the fsck part i get a few diferent errors, some about partitions not being found and similar stuff. In my little knowledge of linux it ooks to me like it doesnt load the sata module or somethig...
I copy here the pacman.log file, i remember that the update was a huge one, around 400 Mbytes if i remember correctly:
[2009-05-30 22:20] synchronizing package lists
[2009-05-30 22:21] starting full system upgrade
[2009-05-30 22:23] synchronizing package lists
[2009-05-30 22:23] starting full system upgrade
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded alacarte (0.11.10-1 -> 0.12.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded kernel-headers (2.6.27.6-2 -> 2.6.29.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded tzdata (2009f-1 -> 2009g-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] warning: /etc/locale.gen installed as /etc/locale.gen.pacnew
[2009-05-30 23:29] Generating locales...
[2009-05-30 23:29] es_ES.UTF-8... done
[2009-05-30 23:29] es_ES.ISO-8859-1... done
[2009-05-30 23:29] es_ES.ISO-8859-15@euro... done
[2009-05-30 23:29] Generation complete.
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded glibc (2.9-4 -> 2.10.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded alsa-lib (1.0.19-1 -> 1.0.20-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded alsa-utils (1.0.19-1 -> 1.0.20-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded binutils (2.19.1-1 -> 2.19.1-3)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded geoip (1.4.5-1 -> 1.4.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gcc-libs (4.3.3-1 -> 4.4.0-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded libdrm (2.4.9-1 -> 2.4.11-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded libgl (7.4.1-1 -> 7.4.2-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded mesa (7.4.1-1 -> 7.4.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded wxgtk (2.8.9.2-1 -> 2.8.10-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded amule (2.2.4-1 -> 2.2.5-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded x264 (20090216-1 -> 20090416-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded avidemux (2.4.4-2 -> 2.4.4-3)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded bin86 (0.16.17-3 -> 0.16.17-4)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gmp (4.2.4-1.1 -> 4.3.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded coreutils (7.2-1 -> 7.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dbus-core (1.2.4.4permissive-1 -> 1.2.14-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded glib2 (2.20.1-1 -> 2.20.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded bluez (4.37-1 -> 4.39-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gstreamer0.10 (0.10.22-1 -> 0.10.23-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base (0.10.22-1 -> 0.10.23-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gstreamer0.10-base-plugins (0.10.22-1 -> 0.10.23-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded brasero (2.26.1-2 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded policykit (0.9-7 -> 0.9-9)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded consolekit (0.3.0-3 -> 0.3.0-5)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded cpio (2.9-3 -> 2.9-5)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded curl (7.19.4-1 -> 7.19.5-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dbus (1.2.4.4permissive-1 -> 1.2.14-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dcron (3.2-3 -> 3.2-4)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dhcpcd (4.0.12-1 -> 5.0.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded dmapi (2.2.9-1 -> 2.2.10-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded docbook-xml (4.5-1 -> 4.5-2)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gconf (2.26.0-3 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gnome-desktop (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded gdbm (1.8.3-5 -> 1.8.3-6)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded sqlite3 (3.6.13-1 -> 3.6.14.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded python (2.6.1-1 -> 2.6.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:29] upgraded eog (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded epiphany (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded poppler (0.10.6-1 -> 0.10.7-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded poppler-glib (0.10.6-1 -> 0.10.7-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded evince (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded libsoup (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded evolution-data-server (2.26.1.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded ffmpeg (20090217-1 -> 0.5-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded file (5.00-1 -> 5.03-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded file-roller (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded findutils (4.4.0-1 -> 4.4.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gcalctool (5.26.1-1 -> 5.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] installed ppl (0.10.2-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] installed cloog-ppl (0.15.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gcc (4.3.3-1 -> 4.4.0-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gtksourceview2 (2.6.1-1 -> 2.6.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gedit (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded glproto (1.4.9-1 -> 1.4.10-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gnome-games (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded whois (4.7.33-1 -> 4.7.33-2)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gnome-nettool (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded policykit-gnome (0.9.2-3 -> 0.9.2-4)
[2009-05-30 23:30] upgraded gnome-panel (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gnome-power-manager (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded vte (0.20.1-1 -> 0.20.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gnome-terminal (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gtk-engines (2.18.1-1 -> 2.18.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gnome-themes (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gnome2-user-docs (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gparted (0.4.4-2 -> 0.4.5-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-bad (0.10.11-1 -> 0.10.12-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libraw1394 (1.3.0-2 -> 2.0.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed libusb1 (1.0.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libdc1394 (2.0.3-1 -> 2.1.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libdvdread (0.9.7-2 -> 4.1.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libdvdnav (0.1.10-3 -> 4.1.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded neon (0.28.3-2 -> 0.28.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed liblrdf (0.4.0-6)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins (0.10.11-3 -> 0.10.12-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libavc1394 (0.5.3-2 -> 0.5.3-3)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libiec61883 (1.1.0-1 -> 1.2.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed libcaca (0.99.beta16-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (0.10.14-1 -> 0.10.15-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins (0.10.11-1 -> 0.10.11-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gtkhtml (3.26.1.1-1 -> 3.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gucharmap (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libarchive (2.6.2-1 -> 2.7.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] NOTE
[2009-05-30 23:31] ----
[2009-05-30 23:31] Add your user to group 'camera' to use camera devices.
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libgphoto2 (2.4.4-1 -> 2.4.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gvfs (1.2.2-1 -> 1.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded gzip (1.3.12-4 -> 1.3.12-6)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded jfsutils (1.1.13-1 -> 1.1.14-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libsndfile (1.0.19-1 -> 1.0.20-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded sox (14.2.0-2 -> 14.2.0-3)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed ilmbase (1.0.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed openexr (1.6.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded libpng (1.2.35-1 -> 1.2.36-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded qt (4.5.0-5 -> 4.5.1-3)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed xine-lib (1.1.16.3-3)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed phonon (4.3.1-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed clucene (0.9.21b-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed exiv2 (0.18-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed strigi (0.6.4-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed soprano (2.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed xdg-utils (1.0.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed kdelibs (4.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed kdebase-runtime (4.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed fftw (3.2.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed libofa (0.9.3-2)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed tunepimp (0.5.3-6)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed kdemultimedia (4.2.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] installed polkit-qt (0.9.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:31] upgraded k3b (1.0.5-2 -> 1.66.0alpha2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:32] upgraded qt3 (3.3.8-10 -> 3.3.8-11)
[2009-05-30 23:32] upgraded kdelibs3 (3.5.10-2 -> 3.5.10-3)
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> MKINITCPIO SETUP
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> ----------------
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID,
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf .
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here:
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio
[2009-05-30 23:32]
[2009-05-30 23:32] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> Building image "default"
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.29-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Begin dry run
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [base]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [udev]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [autodetect]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [sata]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [keymap]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [filesystems]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Generating module dependencies
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> SUCCESS
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> Building image "fallback"
[2009-05-30 23:32] ==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.29-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Begin dry run
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [base]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [udev]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [sata]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [keymap]
[2009-05-30 23:32] :: Parsing hook [filesystems]
[2009-05-30 23:33] :: Generating module dependencies
[2009-05-30 23:33] :: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-fallback.img'...SUCCESS
[2009-05-30 23:33] ==> SUCCESS
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded kernel26 (2.6.29.2-1 -> 2.6.29.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc (1.5.15-1 -> 1.5.15-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc-extras (2.5-2 -> 2.5-3)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc-kbd (1.15.20080312-8 -> 1.15.20080312-9)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc-module-init-tools (3.5-1 -> 3.5-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded klibc-udev (141-1 -> 141-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded libdownload (1.3-1 -> 1.3-3)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded libgsf (1.14.12-1 -> 1.14.13-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded libsasl (2.1.22-7 -> 2.1.22-8)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded lsof (4.81-1 -> 4.82-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded lzo2 (2.02-3 -> 2.03-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded man-pages (3.20-2 -> 3.21-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded metacity (2.26.0-1 -> 2.26.0-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded mlocate (0.21.1-1 -> 0.22-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded mplayer (28347-4 -> 29318-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded mtools (4.0.10-1 -> 4.0.10-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded nautilus (2.26.2-1 -> 2.26.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded net-tools (1.60-13 -> 1.60-14)
[2009-05-30 23:33] * relogin or source /etc/profile.d/openoffice.sh
[2009-05-30 23:33] * see http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openoffice
[2009-05-30 23:33] how to use extensions, e.g. for spell checking
[2009-05-30 23:33] see /opt/openoffice/share/extension/install what
[2009-05-30 23:33] is shipped with this package
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded openoffice-base (3.0.1-1 -> 3.1.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded openoffice-es (3.0.1-1 -> 3.1.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] warning: /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist installed as /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.pacnew
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pacman-mirrorlist (20090405-1 -> 20090509-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pango (1.24.1-1 -> 1.24.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pidgin (2.5.5-2 -> 2.5.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded tcp_wrappers (7.6-8 -> 7.6-9)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded portmap (6.0-2 -> 6.0-3)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded ppp (2.4.4-7 -> 2.4.4-8)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded procps (3.2.7-5 -> 3.2.8-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded psmisc (22.6-2 -> 22.7-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pycairo (1.8.2-1 -> 1.8.4-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded pygobject (2.16.1-1 -> 2.18.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded python-gdata (1.3.0-1 -> 1.3.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded python-nose (0.10.4-3 -> 0.11.0-1)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded python-numpy (1.3.0-1 -> 1.3.0-2)
[2009-05-30 23:33] upgraded rsync (3.0.5-1 -> 3.0.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded seahorse (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded seahorse-plugins (2.26.1-1 -> 2.26.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded sysfsutils (2.1.0-4 -> 2.1.0-5)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded syslinux (3.75-4 -> 3.80-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded sysvinit (2.86-4 -> 2.86-5)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded tomboy (0.14.1-1 -> 0.14.2-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded transmission-gtk (1.42-1 -> 1.60-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded unrar (3.9.1-1 -> 3.9.3-1)
[2009-05-30 23:34] upgraded usbutils (0.81-1 -> 0.82-1)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded vlc (0.9.9a-1 -> 0.9.9a-4)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded wireless_tools (29-2 -> 29-3)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded xfsprogs (3.0.0-1 -> 3.0.1-1)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded xkeyboard-config (1.5-1 -> 1.6-1)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded xorg-server-utils (7.4-5 -> 7.4-6)
[2009-05-30 23:35] upgraded xorg-server (1.6.1-1 -> 1.6.1.901-1)

Rc.sysinit screwed after pacman -Syu

Early today I made a pacman -Syu. There where only 2 packages to upgrade, and I went go on (I couldnt find those packages specified in pacman.log. It only says "Full system upgrade". How can a know those?) Couldnt find anything in the forums regarding this as well.
I do remember too, that one of those give and output after upgrading saying that inittab (I think) and rc.conf were installed as inittab.pacnew and rc.conf.pacnew
The thing is that when I booted again this afternoon, the booting process launched handful of errors on different lines of /etc/rc.sysinit, all of them of "command not found". Now the login prompt says "(none) login:", my keyboard layout changed to default, home is not mounted, etc...
How can I debug this?
Thanks in advance!

^ the same situation as above, and like you figured it to be Bash. (The segmentation fault errors don't show up when "quiet" is in the kernel boot line.) But with the hostname as "none" the filesystem is read-only; how did you downgrade it? Or rather, how does one downgrade a package on a mounted filesystem via the Arch Live CD such as /mnt/root? ... I guess a dirty use of "cp" would be required if not possible with pacman...
Last edited by Skyalmian (2011-03-01 07:23:31)

[SOLVED]wlanwep encryption is failing after system update(pacman -Syu)

After a system update with "pacman -Syu" my wlan encryption does not work anymore.
If I switch off encryption on my access point, I can communicate without any problems.
I have currently two wlans active, one with encryption, one without. I use the following iwconfig settings
iwconfig wlan0 essid my_open_wlan
iwconfig wlan0 essid my_wep_wlan key s:my_wep_password
In the first case I get the connection, in the second I cannot transmit over the network(Destination Host Unreachable).
lspci:
07:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
iwconfig:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"wlan_2012"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:04:0E:57:4E:27
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=13 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=39/70 Signal level=-71 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:44 Invalid misc:43 Missed beacon:0
ip addr:
3: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP qlen 1000
link/ether ec:55:f9:1d:bf:41 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.11/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global wlan0
inet6 fe80::ee55:f9ff:fe1d:bf41/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
This is the output for the open wlan. If I try to connect to the encrypted wlan with "iwconfig wlan0 essid "my_encr_wlan" key s:my_wep_password", the iwconfig command gives me:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"wlan_2007"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.452 GHz Access Point: D8:5D:4C:FA:24:0D
Bit Rate=5.5 Mb/s Tx-Power=13 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=33/70 Signal level=-77 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:2 Invalid misc:1 Missed beacon:0
I have tried wpa_supplicant as well with the same result.
Can anybody give me hint?
Regards
Helmut
Last edited by helmut (2012-03-05 16:31:25)

Wep and ath9k has been buggy for me for a long time now - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Never got around it, adding "options ath9k nohwcrypt=1" into /etc/modprobe.d/ath9k.conf seemed to work for some time. You could give it a try. The network I have problems with is at the university, they use wep + vpn to connect. I can connect fine (like in your last iwconfig), but dhcpd times out.
If you have control over the network, you could just switch to wpa - safer anyway. Or search the forum for "atheros wep", it is a somewhat common problem I think.
P.S.: please use code tags when posting console output.
Last edited by hokasch (2012-02-18 14:48:24)

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