[SOLVED] Partitions not mounted on boot / boots to (none)

I have strange problem after I ran pacman -Syu today. After reboot I can't login and it doesn't show hostname in login window, I do get kdm login screen.
If I select console login or change to tty1 then I can login as root, without any password asked.
After that I am able to mount partitions just fine, and I am also able to chroot in and update the system, didn't help. I also tried downgrading kernel to 3.5.6.1, with no change in behaviour.
I don't have /usr on different partition but decided to try adding usr and shutdown to mkinitcpio hooks anyway, again no improvement.
Recent update only brought shadow.pacnew, which I merged. I do pacnew merges after each update.
Any pointers on where to go next?
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by thepanu (2012-11-01 20:21:41)

You need to understand what you are actually doing when you overwrite old files with new ones. When there is a recommendation to "merge" your pacnew files, that doesn't mean just go ahead and use the new ones. It means you should take the time to see what is in them, see where they differ, and then make an educated decsion on what to do with them from there.
If this is how you have always been handling pacnew files, don't expect that the prolem is totally solved. I would not be suprised if this one sneaks up and bites you in the ass.

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