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)

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

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    Last edited by OpenEye (2013-01-29 05:14:04)

    jasonwryan wrote:
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  • Computer freezes after pacman -Syu

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  • [SOLVED] Broken SLiM after pacman -Syu

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  • [SOLVED] X fails after pacman -Syu

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  • Boot fails after pacman -Syu

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  • PLZ HELP!! Strange issue after pacman -Syu

    after running pacman -Syu and updating all, my system simply doesn't recognize any modules, and when I try to load them by  modprobe <modu name> I receive a  FATAL msg, even the hostname is set to (none) after reboot, I cant even get into   menuconfig   and now after some commands, the hdd starts reading (I don't know what) like crazy, and the system go all slow, I have no idea of what went wrong

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  • [SOLVED] gnome-settings-daemon problem after pacman -Syu

    Today after updating my hp laptop with pacman -Syu, I noticed that I lost a few of my multimedia key shortcuts. When I tried to fix this with System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts, I get this error:
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    Last edited by bebeababa (2008-10-23 17:08:13)

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