[SOLVED] ((none)) login/tty and no keyboard after last upgrade?

Hi,
I dual boot and it's been a while since I last upgraded. I booted into Arch, updated everything, and used the system for a few days before rebooting (perhaps a bad call). I just rebooted today and my login prompt is like this:
((none)) tty1
(none) login:
But my keyboard does nothing. No alt+f* to get to a different terminal, no nothing. I have to hard kill the machine. I've tried twice but would prefer not to do that more than I have to. The second time, fsck didn't work so I booted into the Arch install disk and ran it manually. I tried to chroot into my Arch install and re-run pacman -Syu but got transient server failures. Not sure what all needs to be in place to try and do that, though.
Has anyone encountered anything like this before? I get the same behavior with arch and arch fallback. I boot to login prompt, not directly to X so it's not anything to do with that, at least not that I would figure.
So far, the only thing I've been able to find is from 2007 (LINK) but it seemed related to X. I'm going to check rc.conf next time I boot up but wanted to see if there's any other suggestions from someone more experience before I boot up again and potentially have to hard kill.
Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions.
Last edited by jwhendy (2010-10-26 02:53:26)

@Knute: indeed.
Somewhat embarrassingly, I just found out about manually maintaining *.pacnew files today when researching an unrelated issue. It made me wonder if that was my problem. Perhaps something is goofed in /etc which would explain a ton.
I'm in OS X right now but will reboot shortly and try to fix this issue.
The keyboard issue is troubling as well, though. Some have reported no logins, but often it's a PAM or login manager issue trying to go into X directly. I'm doing no such thing and literally can't get *anything* to work on my keyboard. That makes me wonder...
If I were to boot into the Arch CD and try to run pacman manually... what do I have to do other than
# mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
# chroot /mnt
I tried that yesterday but failed. I'm wondering if I have to mount some other items for that to work. /proc?

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    [11:37] <`Samus_> in fact resourcing /etc/profile fixes it too
    [11:38] <{xmb}> code fault something where
    [11:38] <pgas> ok, so one of the script starting X sets PS!
    [11:38] <pgas> you are on debian? have you checked /etc/bash.bashrc ?
    [11:38] <`Samus_> that's what I think but I can't find it
    [11:39] <`Samus_> no I'm on archlinux
    [11:39] <pgas> what if you type just "bash" in a terminal?
    [11:39] <`Samus_> and it might be some mistake because it started to happen after the last upgrade
    [11:39] * floyd_n_milan ([email protected]) has joined #bash
    [11:39] * hark ([email protected]) has joined #bash
    [11:40] <`Samus_> 'bash' shows the wrong prompt, 'bash --login' the right one
    [11:40] <pgas> in a terminal with the correct PS1 that is
    [11:40] * osfulgore ([email protected]) has joined #bash
    [11:40] <`Samus_> oh, in a terminal with the right prompt it stays ok
    [11:40] * `Samus_ fells kinda lost...
    [11:41] <pgas> ok, so the problem seems to be in one of the script used to start X
    [11:42] * prince_jammys has quit ("Konversation terminated!")
    [11:42] * Oper_ has quit ("Íå çíàåòå Äàíèëà Áåðåíöåâà? Îí ñêîðî âñòðåòèòñÿ âàì! Íå ñëûøàëè òàêîãî àâòîðà? Äîñòàíüòå ïðÿìî çàâòðà!!!")
    [11:42] * Oper_ ([email protected]) has joined #bash
    [11:42] <`Samus_> grepping 'PS1' in /etc/X11 didn't showed anything
    [11:42] <`Samus_> some clue of what should I look for (or where)?
    [11:43] <pgas> startx? ask #archlinux?
    [11:43] <`Samus_> going...
    I've also tried different WMs (KDE, xmonad) and they have this same problem but then, "fgrep 'PS1' /usr/bin/startx" and "fgrep -R 'PS1' /etc/X11/" showed nothing!! now what?
    truly wtf...

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