[SOLVED] Problems after full system update

Hi, today i've issued pacman -Syu and after reboot, my X refuses to start (says it has no device) and also i have no network interfaces, just loopback. Everything worked well before update. Any ideas?
Last edited by ancrouter (2011-10-21 15:11:30)

ancrouter wrote:Strange... i've just updated again to latest linux-3.0.7-1 package, and everything works fine. There had to be some problem during updating.
You could have run
lsinitcpio -a /boot/initramfs-linux.img
on the old image to see what modules did it include.
Re-running mkinitcpio probably generated a correct image so it's working now.

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Unresponsive input devices after full system update

This problem's been going on for a couple of months now. Essentially what happens is that when I perform a normal system update using
sudo pacman -Syu
and reboot the computer, it will go through the normal booting process (Everything marked as OK), but when the display manager starts, the resolution is significantly lower (probably 800x600 rather than 1366x768). Another symptom is that the neither the keyboard nor the mouse register any input on the screen. (Pressing the 'lock' keys don't trigger the LED on the keyboard, and the mouse doesn't move on the screen).
The only way I've been able to remedy this situation is that everytime I perform a system update, I have to load up the Arch boot CD, and pacstrap the root installing.
I"m not entirely sure which information one would need to diagnose this problem, but I'll include the output from the system update, and the pactrap update;
System update:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core is up to date
extra is up to date
community is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Packages (63): alsa-plugins-1.0.27-1 archlinux-keyring-20130406-1 binutils-2.23.2-2 chromium-26.0.1410.63-1 cifs-utils-6.0-1 firefox-20.0.1-2 flashplugin-11.2.202.280-1 gcc-4.8.0-2 gcc-libs-4.8.0-2 git-1.8.2.1-1 glibc-2.17-5 gnome-media-3.4.0-2 harfbuzz-0.9.15-1 imagemagick-6.8.4.6-1 isl-0.11.2-1 java-commons-daemon-1.0.15-1 java-jsvc-1.0.15-1 kmod-13-1 ldb-1.1.15-1 libbsd-0.4.2-1 libcap-2.22-4 libcdio-paranoia-10.2+0.90+1-1 libdiscid-0.5.0-1 libgnome-media-profiles-3.0.0-4 libldap-2.4.35-1 libmicrohttpd-0.9.25-2 libnfs-1.5.0-1 libpng-1.5.15-1 libreoffice-base-4.0.2-2 libreoffice-calc-4.0.2-2 libreoffice-common-4.0.2-2 libreoffice-draw-4.0.2-2 libreoffice-en-US-4.0.2-2 libreoffice-gnome-4.0.2-2 libreoffice-impress-4.0.2-2 libreoffice-math-4.0.2-2 libreoffice-writer-4.0.2-2 libshairport-1.2.1.20121215-1 libva-1.1.1-1 libwbclient-4.0.5-1 libwnck3-3.4.5-1 libxi-1.7.1-1 linux-3.8.6-1 lua-5.2.2-1 mpg123-1.15.3-1 nspr-4.9.6-1 orc-0.4.17-1 psmisc-22.20-1 python-3.3.1-1 python2-2.7.4-1 python2-distribute-0.6.36-1 python2-lxml-3.1.1-1 smbclient-4.0.5-1 sqlite-3.7.16.2-1 sudo-1.8.6.p8-1 systemd-201-1 systemd-sysvcompat-201-1 tevent-0.9.18-1 thunderbird-17.0.5-1 vlc-2.0.6-1 xbmc-12.1-5 xf86-input-synaptics-1.7.0-1 xf86-video-vmware-13.0.0-3
Total Download Size: 295.55 MiB
Total Installed Size: 1047.26 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: -80.29 MiB
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checking keyring...
checking package integrity...
loading package files...
checking for file conflicts...
checking available disk space...
upgrading alsa-plugins...
upgrading archlinux-keyring...
==> Appending keys from archlinux.gpg...
gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model
gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 5 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u
gpg: depth: 1 valid: 5 signed: 64 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 5m, 0f, 0u
gpg: depth: 2 valid: 64 signed: 1 trust: 64-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 0u
gpg: next trustdb check due at 2014-01-22
==> Locally signing trusted keys in keyring...
-> Locally signing key 0E8B644079F599DFC1DDC3973348882F6AC6A4C2...
-> Locally signing key 684148BB25B49E986A4944C55184252D824B18E8...
-> Locally signing key 44D4A033AC140143927397D47EFD567D4C7EA887...
-> Locally signing key 27FFC4769E19F096D41D9265A04F9397CDFD6BB0...
-> Locally signing key AB19265E5D7D20687D303246BA1DFB64FFF979E7...
==> Importing owner trust values...
==> Updating trust database...
gpg: next trustdb check due at 2014-01-22
upgrading glibc...
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
en_US.ISO-8859-1... done
Generation complete.
upgrading binutils...
upgrading kmod...
upgrading libcap...
upgrading systemd...
upgrading chromium...
installing libbsd...
upgrading libwbclient...
upgrading cifs-utils...
upgrading sqlite...
upgrading firefox...
upgrading flashplugin...
upgrading gcc-libs...
upgrading gcc...
upgrading git...
upgrading libgnome-media-profiles...
upgrading gnome-media...
New optional dependencies for gnome-media
gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins: Record sound into mp3 format [installed]
upgrading harfbuzz...
upgrading imagemagick...
upgrading isl...
upgrading java-commons-daemon...
upgrading java-jsvc...
upgrading libcdio-paranoia...
upgrading libdiscid...
upgrading libldap...
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upgrading libnfs...
upgrading libpng...
upgrading libreoffice-en-US...
upgrading python...
upgrading libreoffice-common...
upgrading libreoffice-base...
upgrading libreoffice-calc...
upgrading libreoffice-draw...
upgrading libreoffice-gnome...
upgrading libreoffice-impress...
upgrading libreoffice-math...
upgrading libreoffice-writer...
upgrading libshairport...
upgrading libva...
upgrading libwnck3...
upgrading libxi...
upgrading linux...
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
>>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
==> Building image from preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 3.8.6-1-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [lvm2]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
==> WARNING: Hook 'usbinput' is deprecated. Replace it with 'keyboard' in your config
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 3.8.6-1-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [lvm2]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
==> WARNING: Hook 'usbinput' is deprecated. Replace it with 'keyboard' in your config
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
upgrading lua...
upgrading mpg123...
upgrading nspr...
upgrading orc...
upgrading psmisc...
upgrading python2...
upgrading python2-distribute...
upgrading python2-lxml...
installing tevent...
Optional dependencies for tevent
python2: for python bindings [installed]
installing ldb...
Optional dependencies for ldb
python2: for python bindings [installed]
upgrading smbclient...
upgrading sudo...
upgrading systemd-sysvcompat...
upgrading thunderbird...
upgrading vlc...
New optional dependencies for vlc
ttf-freefont: for subtitle font
upgrading xbmc...
upgrading xf86-input-synaptics...
upgrading xf86-video-vmware...
Pacstrap results:
==> Creating install root at /mnt
==> Installing packages to /mnt
:: Synchronizing package databases...
downloading core.db...
downloading core.db...
downloading core.db...
downloading core.db...
downloading core.db...
downloading extra.db...
downloading extra.db...
downloading extra.db...
downloading community.db...
downloading community.db...
downloading community.db...
:: There are 52 members in group base:
:: Repository core
1) bash 2) bzip2 3) coreutils 4) cronie 5) cryptsetup 6) device-mapper 7) dhcpcd 8) diffutils 9) e2fsprogs 10) file 11) filesystem 12) findutils 13) gawk 14) gcc-libs 15) gettext 16) glibc 17) grep 18) gzip 19) heirloom-mailx 20) inetutils 21) iproute2 22) iputils 23) jfsutils 24) less 25) licenses 26) linux 27) logrotate 28) lvm2 29) man-db 30) man-pages 31) mdadm 32) nano 33) netcfg 34) pacman 35) pciutils 36) pcmciautils 37) perl 38) ppp 39) procps-ng 40) psmisc 41) reiserfsprogs 42) sed 43) shadow 44) sysfsutils 45) systemd-sysvcompat 46) tar 47) texinfo 48) usbutils 49) util-linux 50) vi 51) which 52) xfsprogs
Enter a selection (default=all):
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (52): bash-4.2.045-1 bzip2-1.0.6-4 coreutils-8.21-1 cronie-1.4.9-2 cryptsetup-1.6.0-1 device-mapper-2.02.98-3 dhcpcd-5.6.7-1 diffutils-3.3-1 e2fsprogs-1.42.7-1 file-5.14-1 filesystem-2013.03-2 findutils-4.4.2-5 gawk-4.0.2-1 gcc-libs-4.8.0-2 gettext-0.18.2.1-1 glibc-2.17-5 grep-2.14-2 gzip-1.5-3 heirloom-mailx-12.5-3 inetutils-1.9.1-4 iproute2-3.8.0-1 iputils-20121221-1 jfsutils-1.1.15-3 less-451-1 licenses-20130203-1 linux-3.8.6-1 logrotate-3.8.3-1 lvm2-2.02.98-3 man-db-2.6.3-1 man-pages-3.50-1 mdadm-3.2.6-3 nano-2.2.6-2 netcfg-3.0-1 pacman-4.1.0-2 pciutils-3.1.10-1 pcmciautils-018-6 perl-5.16.3-1 ppp-2.4.5-5 procps-ng-3.3.7-1 psmisc-22.20-1 reiserfsprogs-3.6.22-1 sed-4.2.2-2 shadow-4.1.5.1-5 sysfsutils-2.1.0-8 systemd-sysvcompat-201-1 tar-1.26-2 texinfo-5.1-1 usbutils-006-1 util-linux-2.22.2-2 vi-1:050325-3 which-2.20-6 xfsprogs-3.1.10-1
Total Installed Size: 245.60 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.00 MiB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
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loading package files...
checking for file conflicts...
checking available disk space...
upgrading filesystem...
upgrading glibc...
Generating locales...
en_US.UTF-8... done
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upgrading bzip2...
upgrading coreutils...
upgrading cronie...
upgrading device-mapper...
upgrading shadow...
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upgrading cryptsetup...
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upgrading diffutils...
upgrading e2fsprogs...
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upgrading findutils...
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upgrading gcc-libs...
upgrading gettext...
upgrading grep...
upgrading gzip...
upgrading heirloom-mailx...
upgrading inetutils...
upgrading iproute2...
upgrading sysfsutils...
upgrading iputils...
upgrading jfsutils...
upgrading less...
upgrading licenses...
upgrading linux...
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
>>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
==> Building image from preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 3.8.6-1-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [lvm2]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
==> WARNING: Hook 'usbinput' is deprecated. Replace it with 'keyboard' in your config
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-> Running build hook: [fsck]
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-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 3.8.6-1-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [lvm2]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
==> WARNING: Hook 'usbinput' is deprecated. Replace it with 'keyboard' in your config
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful
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upgrading pacman...
upgrading pciutils...
upgrading pcmciautils...
upgrading perl...
upgrading ppp...
upgrading procps-ng...
upgrading psmisc...
upgrading reiserfsprogs...
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upgrading systemd-sysvcompat...
upgrading tar...
upgrading texinfo...
upgrading usbutils...
upgrading vi...
upgrading which...
upgrading xfsprogs...
That was the most recent occurrence, but like I said, it's been occurring for months. I figure it's probably some crazy setting I have in my system. I'll post my mkinitcpio.conf just as a preemptive measure.
# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run. Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array. For instance:
# MODULES="piix ide_disk reiserfs"
MODULES=""
# BINARIES
# This setting includes any additional binaries a given user may
# wish into the CPIO image. This is run last, so it may be used to
# override the actual binaries included by a given hook
# BINARIES are dependency parsed, so you may safely ignore libraries
BINARIES=""
# FILES
# This setting is similar to BINARIES above, however, files are added
# as-is and are not parsed in any way. This is useful for config files.
FILES=""
# HOOKS
# This is the most important setting in this file. The HOOKS control the
# modules and scripts added to the image, and what happens at boot time.
# Order is important, and it is recommended that you do not change the
# order in which HOOKS are added. Run 'mkinitcpio -H <hook name>' for
# help on a given hook.
# 'base' is _required_ unless you know precisely what you are doing.
# 'udev' is _required_ in order to automatically load modules
# 'filesystems' is _required_ unless you specify your fs modules in MODULES
# Examples:
## This setup specifies all modules in the MODULES setting above.
## No raid, lvm2, or encrypted root is needed.
# HOOKS="base"
## This setup will autodetect all modules for your system and should
## work as a sane default
# HOOKS="base udev autodetect block filesystems"
## This setup will generate a 'full' image which supports most systems.
## No autodetection is done.
# HOOKS="base udev block filesystems"
## This setup assembles a pata mdadm array with an encrypted root FS.
## Note: See 'mkinitcpio -H mdadm' for more information on raid devices.
# HOOKS="base udev block mdadm encrypt filesystems"
## This setup loads an lvm2 volume group on a usb device.
# HOOKS="base udev block lvm2 filesystems"
## NOTE: If you have /usr on a separate partition, you MUST include the
# usr, fsck and shutdown hooks.
HOOKS="base udev autodetect modconf block lvm2 filesystems keyboard fsck"
# COMPRESSION
# Use this to compress the initramfs image. By default, gzip compression
# is used. Use 'cat' to create an uncompressed image.
#COMPRESSION="gzip"
#COMPRESSION="bzip2"
#COMPRESSION="lzma"
#COMPRESSION="xz"
#COMPRESSION="lzop"
# COMPRESSION_OPTIONS
# Additional options for the compressor
#COMPRESSION_OPTIONS=""

ewaller wrote:
Can we take a peek at your /etc/fstab ?
I think you've the problem I had suspected was going on in that other thread. I think your boot partition is not mounted on /boot at the time you do the upgrade. This will cause the new modules to be installed in the libraries. The new kernel and initrd will be built, and installed to the /boot mount point. Unfortunately, if the boot partition is not mounted, the files don't replace the old ones and the boot loader uses the stale files the next time you boot. The old kernel cannot find its modules, because the only ones available belong to the new kernel (you know, the one that was written to what /boot)
If you can use the keyboard after an upgrade, log in and compare the output of uname -a and of pacman -Qi linux. The versions had better match.
Yes, it seems as if you were right. I must have missed that in the thread you posted. My /etc/fstab does not have the boot partition in it, just the root and home (I'm using lvm for both of them)
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/mapper/zenith-root
UUID=ee7499cc-47b3-4001-a2ed-01686bc0aaec / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
# /dev/mapper/zenith-home
UUID=e13add11-3bc1-44d5-acc4-f7e0be7f8419 /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2

After full system update ppp does not work anymore

Well, I have this problem:
1) I install Arch Linux from the latest Core
2) I manually install the latest versions of wvdial and its dependences (xplc and wvstreams). This is an offline installation (because I can't set up internet without wvdial. So I save these packages on USB drive, and there I lanch pacman -U *.pkg.tar.gz)
3) I set up my GPRS internet connection (I use a mobile phone)
Everything works well (i.e.: I can ping google without problem).
Problems arise if I decide to update my system. In this case, indeed, after updating and rebooting, my connection doesn't work no more. Everything works fine until I update. After update, I can say hello to my ppp.
Then, I add some some details.
These are the last lines of messages.log after a successful connection (i.e.: before the full update of my system)
pl2303 4-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
usb 4.2: pl2303 now attached to ttyUSB0
usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
pl2303: prolific pl2303 USB to serial adaptor driver
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
NET: registered protocol family 10
lo: disabled privacy extensions
pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
using interface ppp0
connect ppp <-> /dev/ttyUSB0
PAP authenticate suceed
PPP BSD compression module registered
PPP deflate compression module registered
local IP address ...
remote ID address ...
primary DNS address ...
secondary DNS address ...
The last lines of messages.log after the update are:
pl2303 4-2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
usb 4.2: pl2303 now attached to ttyUSB0
usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
pl2303: prolific pl2303 USB to serial adaptor driver
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
NET: registered protocol family 10
lo: disabled privacy extensions
pppd 2.4.5 started by root, uid 0
As you can see, it's seems there are problems in "using ppp0 interface". Indeed, pppd starts, but ppp0 interface not. I can also add that ifconfig ppp0 up and similar commands do not work (ppp0: no such device, or something like that).
So, what can I do?

I don't use ppp so this is just a guess. However, after a recent upgrade I saw a message from pacman:
[2010-02-14 09:07] >>> The kernel-mode plugin has a new place.
[2010-02-14 09:07] >>> It's now located under /usr/lib/rp-pppoe/rp-pppoe.so
[2010-02-14 09:07] >>> Change LINUX_PLUGIN to the new path in your /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf
[2010-02-14 09:07] upgraded rp-pppoe (3.10-2 -> 3.10-4)
Could this be the problem?
Last edited by loafer (2010-02-23 20:01:29)

Problem after a system update

Hello,
Last week I've updated my whole system and now I've got a strange problem launching an application which worked well before :
$mercury
awk: error while loading shared libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/bin/ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dirname: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
basename: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
grep: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
/opt/java/jre/bin/java: error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
mercury hasn't been updated so it cannot be the problem, and when I do a locate {lib} where lib is the "missing" lib name, I always find it ... what's the problem ?
Thanlks a lot

Just leaving out LD_ASSUME_KERNEL is fine too. This variable was used to select the linuxthreads libraries in glibc, but these are no longer included and we no longer support linuxthreads, only NPTL. NPTL requires a 2.6 kernel, which should be at least 2.6.6 or so. Our glibc build uses 2.6.12 kernelheaders, so our glibc requires a 2.6.12 kernel or later.

System time wrongly set to UTC after full system update

After updating my arch linux box with pacman -Syu the time is wrongly set to UTC time.
I use only arch linux on all of my computers.
The time in the BIOS is set to UTC and is correct.
In my /etc/rc.conf I have
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE=Europe/Athens
Does anyone have the same problem? Did anyone find a fix?
P.S I don't want to set the HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"

I believe that the problem lies in hwclock command or the kernel.
when I issue the command hwclock --utc --hctosys
the time stays the same (UTC timezone) while it should change to my timezone (Europe/Athens). I tried it with other timezones as well but the result is the same.
Anyone experiencing the same problem ?

[SOLVED] Problem with full system backup with rsync

Hello,
I made a backups by following this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fu … with_rsync
Then I copied it to another computer, edited grub and fstab and it's almost works.
Commands su and sudo produces:
Cannot set groups, operation not allowed.
Maybe I must change permission of some file in system, because I backup system first to ntfs disk.
And I copied it as root, so it have only root permissions. But I don't know which files must I change.
Thanks
Last edited by KSJ (2013-07-21 18:40:59)

KSJ wrote:Maybe I must change permission of some file in system, because I backup system first to ntfs disk.
And I copied it as root, so it have only root permissions. But I don't know which files must I change.
Best not to try. If you backed up to NTFS, the best thing to do is to reinstall and then copy over stuff from your home, crucial config files etc. You will need to adjust ownership and permissions appropriately for everything you copy over from the backup.
NTFS does not preserve ownership and permissions.
Of course, if you still have your original installation, you can make a new backup instead. Just make sure to use a suitable filesystem.
Last edited by cfr (2013-05-24 00:52:17)

HT1386 After a full system update phone and comp, some of my contacts have been lost and most of them now only have the numbers remaining, can the lost contacts be retrieved completely somehow.

After a full system update phone and comp, some of my contacts have been lost and most of them now only have the numbers remaining, can the lost contacts be retrieved completely somehow.

At some point in the past, I synched with Gmail. Looking at my Gmail contacts, I can see that it's missing the same contacts I'm currently missing from the iPhone. Is it possible that I may have done that sync back in October 2009 (but not since) and then somehow recently over-wrote my contacts content with whatever was there? Is there some setting I could have tripped to make something like that happen?

Full system update lead to unresponsive terminal

Hi, all.
I performed a full system update with pacman -Syyu on my machine. This machine has not been fully updated for some time, though I updated some packages occasionally. The only warning message I noticed is that "/bin/mountpoint" existed already, and the system didn't allow the update. I remembered I also ran into similar issues before (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=132225), so I adopted the same approach and added the --force option. The updating process was quite smooth.
However, after reboot, the system is unresponsive. I could see the login prompt, but the system didn't accept any input from the keyboard, and I could do nothing. The booting message showed the filesystem (RAID1 with LVM) were mounted, but /dev/pts and /dev/shm couldn't be mounted. And it seemed that many binaries in /sbin and /bin couldn't be found. (I think it is due to the merge of /sbin and /bin to /usr/bin.)
I understand you might need more information to offer advise, but the system is effectively frozen, I need to have a responsive shell to provide more information. So this is basically a dead loop now ... Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance!

First question: did you force just the util-linux package, or did you actually do `pacman -Syyu --force`.
I think the former would have been a mistake, but the latter would be a major f&*^ up. It might be useful to know just how wrong this could have gone.
Last edited by Trilby (2012-05-18 17:40:20)

Wifi problem after.4.3 update on xperia z

Hi all,
After updating my Xperia Z (C6603) to build number 10.4.1.B.0.101 I've been having connection issues with every Wi-Fi network.
I've checked the forum but I only found problems about people having Wi-Fi issues with their smartwatch, I do not own a smart watch this is just a general networking issues.
Here's the problem in detail:
When having no Wi-Fi switched on while booting the phone the phone will start without any issues, I will receive my 3G/4G signal and I can browse, e-mail, everything.
Once I switch on Wi-Fi it will start connecting to previously stored Wi-Fi access points but will not connect. Eventually it says that there was a problem with connecting, even though this will take several minutes.
I can go into the Wi-Fi settings, select a different Wi-Fi network (if it is in range) and press connect, however the settings app will freeze at that point and eventually I'll get a notification that the settings app has stopped working.
I have found a "work-around": I switch the Wi-Fi to on, power off the phone and power on again. Now the Wi-Fi connection immediately powers on without an issue once the phone has completely booted, it also will connect to the default Wi-Fi connection that is in range. A different issue appears however once I move out of Wi-Fi range, it will no longer pick up my 3G/4G signal. It is also impossible to switch off Wi-Fi or switch Wi-Fi network connections without rebooting the phone.
As I said before this happened to me after updating to version 10.4.1.B.0.101 after having it received through OTA update. I do not have root access on my phone either so this can't be it.
Is there anyone experiencing the same issues? Is this somehow related to the issues people are experiencing with their smart watch connections (as seen in this topic: http://talk.sonymobile.com/t5/Software-Updates/wifi-problem-after-4-3-update-on-xperia-z/td-p/490591...
If there's anyone who is experiencing the same issues, or has found a fix for this I'd gladly hear from you.
Regards,
Danny
Sony Xperia Z
Modelnumber: C6603
Android version: 4.3
Kernal version: 3.4.0-ge09aff8
Build number: 10.4.1.B.0.101

I faced the same problem. So what u did now to connect your 3g or 4g. Did u tried kitkat update? Its works or not?

IWork (Pages) does not work after last system update!

since some days (after last system update) iWork programms are not starting any more!
macosx 10.7.5 new update
solution atemd: cancel p-ram and p-list, re-installing iwork from DVD and update it from http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1563
macbookpro 2.53 ghz intel core 2 duo, 8 gb ram
any body an idea what i can do to fix it?

hi - i think you should not use 'xhost +' - it's not secure and you shouldn't need it....
in your .bashrc or .cshrc or whatever, you should have setenv DISPLAY .0 or the equivalent export...
then ssh -Y hostname should be all you need... no xhost, and not setting DISPLAY every time...
could you enter the following command from a terminal window and post back the results?
grep X11 /etc/ssh*_config
cheers

[SOLVED] Inkscape bug after last system update

After the last system update I started to have problems in Inkscape when I tried to adjust the color and alpha sliders to maximum values. They would only go up to 245. This means that a lot of basic colors are not achievable anymore, and the opacity cannot be set to maximum, which basically makes Inkscape unusable. After googling it for a while, I understood that there was a similar problem some time ago with Inkscape version 0.46-7 and GTK+ (here is a far better description of the bug, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467431), but this problem was assumably fixed in a later version (for the Red Hat package anyway). I am using at the moment Inkscape 0.46-10 and GTK2. Anyone with similar problems? Please help and thank you very much!
Last edited by anca (2009-04-02 11:20:53)

anca wrote:
I tried setting the values manually... I even tried, believe it or not, to edit the XML file! Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Could you please describe in more detail what exactly you did to fix it? I have a lot of images to finish and he deadline is getting scaringly close . Anyway, thank you so much for your feed-back!
Anca
under the fill and stroke dialogue (ctrl-f), there is a small input box called RGBA which is just that, 1 byte for each channel. edit it at will. you will notice the sliders dont go past 245, but the value used by inkscape is the hex number there

[Solved] problems after "udev - systemd-tools" update

Hello,
After the last pacman -Syu the keyboard, the mouse and the sound card of my notebook have stopped working..
The last update was:
Pacchetti (10): dnsmasq-2.62-1 fakeroot-1.18.4-1 filesystem-2012.6-2
geoip-database-20120606-1 icu-49.1.2-1 krb5-1.10.2-1
libsystemd-185-1 mx-1.4.6-1 rsync-3.0.9-3
systemd-tools-185-1
the keyboard works in a tty shell, doesn't work only in X... but if i plug an USB mouse or keyboard the plugged device works also fine in X.
this is my modules and daemons in rc.conf:
MODULES=(acpi-cpufreq cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_powersave vboxdrv bridge tun)
DAEMONS=(hwclock syslog-ng dbus !network @networkmanager @netfs @crond @sensors @bluetooth gdm)
thanks to everyone
Last edited by Gelax! (2012-06-08 10:04:51)

I have a SSD, I read on the forum that a possible optimization was to mount in ram /var/run and /var/lock...
before having these problems I mounted it in this way and everything worked perfectly.
none /var/run tmpfs mode=0755,size=10m,noatime,nosuid 0 0
none /var/lock tmpfs mode=1777,size=10m,noatime,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
after the system upgrade i have tryed to mount /run in ram but that created these problems...
so I just mounted /run/lock in ram and everything works fine
Last edited by Gelax! (2012-06-08 12:16:35)

X do not start after full system upgrade - [SOLVED]

hi all,
i did a full system upgrade yesterday, and after that, arch doesn't start..
the error itself:
X: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
any help on this? want to get off of bloated ubuntu
installed packages: http://pastebin.archlinux.org/15106
Last edited by ivan (2007-09-25 13:49:57)

I have the same issue also. Something told me not to reboot but I did because I wanted to use my rt-kernel.
yes, please help because I too have to use Ubuntu-Studio and SuSE's JAD. Both way too bloated and not as fast as Arch..
I tried to fix the xorg.conf but nothing.

[SOLVED] GNOME is messed up after full system upgrade

I ran a full system upgrade today (last one was about 1-2 months ago) and it went smoothly.
Everything boots normally, and my default GNOME desktop also boots, but all the icons are messed up, as can be seen in this screenshot.
And worst, the overlay panel (e.g. when pressing the Windows key) is completely b0rked and unusable.
The GNOME desktop is the default one with no modifications that I know of. I tried searching for existing issues but didn't find any.
I'm running Intel Graphics on:
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
Any ideas?
Last edited by yuvadm (2014-03-06 10:03:30)

While typing the post, I bumped into https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gn … ncorrectly
After setting and re-setting my monitor resolution, things seem to fall back into place.
Looks like I'll use the scaling factor hack for a permanent fix.

X301 problems after installing driver updates - won't come out of sleep mode

We have a new X301 with Vista 32 installed. Things were working fine until I ran system update the other day. I've set the power options so not shutdown hibernate, however, after a period of time the system seems to go to sleep or to a screen saver and will not come out of whatever state it is in. The only solution is to power off/on the system.
I have an X500 where there were display driver problems if there was an external monitor (dual monitor) attached. The only thing I can think of is that either there is some similar issue with the X301 since we have an external monitor attached or there is something that was messed up with the drivers that were installed. I do have (for now) restore points before these drivers were installed but I'm not ready to take that drastic step yet (or a full system restore and start over).
Anyone experience this type of issue or have any suggestions?
Thanks
Neil

Sadly, I had the issue resurface today. It went into standby/sleep mode while I was in a meeting (on battery power), and later I tried to wake it, and all I got was a black screen with a mouse cursor.
The keyboard brightness and volume keys on the keyboard were responsive (I could hear the audio level clicks as I changed it), but the visual overlay didn't show (where it shows the white speaker graphic with the bar of rectangles representing volume level). Also, the screen brightness keys did nothing.
I finally used Ctrl + Cmd + Power to force a restart. Luckily, my user account didn't get completely hosed like it did a couple weeks ago.
So, it looks like Migration Assistant isn't the culprit here. This is the system I just finished rebuilding. So it's either a bug in OS X/Mavericks, or it's due to an application I have running, or a configuration change I've made.
It seems to only happen when I'm on battery power, for what that's worth. I don't recall it ever happening when I'm plugged in. I have Power Nap disabled while on battery power, btw.
I'm going to enable SSH access so I can try to SSH in the next time this happens. Perhaps that will provide useful diagnostic info.
Anyone have any tips or suggestions?

[SOLVED] Problems after full system update

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