Pacman -Syu leads to "Oh No!" screen after a reboot...

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I updated Arch recently (last time I updated was around 10/2011) and was surprised by a greeting that states that my system cannot recover and I must log out. I did some searching around and I didn't find a solution to my issue. It may help to know that I did the filesystem.2011.12 (?) manual intervention as stated under Arch's news as well as the initscripts manual intervention (after downloading all the files necessary for a system update if that matters...).
Here's my .xsession-errors file after attempting to log into Gnome and successfully Ctrl+Alt+F2'ing to retrieve the data:
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
localuser:asdf being added to access control list
/etc/gdm/Xsession: ssh-agent not found!
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Setup done, will execute: gnome-session
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-xW1LpN
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-xW1LpN
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-xW1LpN/gpg:0:1
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-xW1LpN
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-xW1LpN/gpg:0:1
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-xW1LpN
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/tmp/keyring-xW1LpN/gpg:0:1
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-xW1LpN/ssh
(gnome-settings-daemon:1048): keybindings-plugin-WARNING **: Key binding (screenreader) is incomplete
(gnome-settings-daemon:1048): keybindings-plugin-WARNING **: Key binding (magnifier) is incomplete
(gnome-settings-daemon:1048): keybindings-plugin-WARNING **: Key binding (onscreenkeyboard) is incomplete
avant-window-navigator: error while loading shared libraries: libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
(gnome-shell:1086): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.nautilus.desktop' is not installed
(gnome-shell:1086): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_get_key_info: assertion `settings->priv->schema != NULL' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_variant_get_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_variant_unref: assertion `value != NULL' failed
(nm-applet:1110): libnotify-WARNING **: Failed to connect to proxy
** (nm-applet:1110): WARNING **: get_all_cb: couldn't retrieve system settings properties: (25) Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1.
** (nm-applet:1110): WARNING **: fetch_connections_done: error fetching connections: (25) Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1.
** (nm-applet:1110): WARNING **: Failed to register as an agent: (25) Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1
gnome-session[1020]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal
gnome-shell-calendar-server[1123]: Got HUP on stdin - exiting
(gnome-shell:1138): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.nautilus.desktop' is not installed
(gnome-shell:1138): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_settings_get_key_info: assertion `settings->priv->schema != NULL' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_variant_get_string: assertion `value != NULL' failed
Window manager warning: Log level 8: g_variant_unref: assertion `value != NULL' failed
gnome-session[1020]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly
gnome-shell-calendar-server[1147]: Got HUP on stdin - exiting
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/fusion-icon", line 57, in <module>
from FusionIcon.interface import choose_interface
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FusionIcon/interface.py", line 22, in <module>
from util import env
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/FusionIcon/util.py", line 23, in <module>
import os, compizconfig, ConfigParser, time
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/compizconfig.so: undefined symbol: ccsImportFromFile
gnome-session[1020]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal
(gnome-settings-daemon:1048): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output
How can I go about fixing this?
Last edited by illusory (2012-03-23 01:56:03)

Answer 1

Read the news...
http://www.archlinux.org/news/libpnglib … m-testing/