[Solved] Severely broken system after update

I need help with system that doesn't boot after update.
I tried to make pacman -Syu on a system which was not updated since 2010 xmass... probably being overwhelmed by number of issues I did something wrong, but now the system is in a very bad state.
I think that the main issue was glibc update. I followed the instruction to install all other packages before glibc, but every second package was complaining about glibc (although they all updated). Then pacman became broken, but I solved this and finally everything got updated.
Everything looked fine right after update, but now the system is "unable to find root device" on boot.
I tried to boot with recent arch usb stick (cd drive is broken in the computer), but it doesn't boot (reboots right after "loading archiso.img"). I managed to boot with ubuntu usb stick. I chrooted to my arch partition using these instructions:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chroot#Change_root
then, following pacman wiki I reinstalled linux, mkinitcpio and systemd.
It didn't help. The last thing I can think of is to reinstall all packages via chroot. Is there any handy way to do this, taking into account that some packages could have been installed from AUR (I don't care about them at this point, but I wouldn't like this to stop me from reinstalling all other packages)?
Any other ideas?
Last edited by senjin (2012-09-15 19:34:26)

It's not a solution since arch installation usb stick doesn't work for me, as I mentioned above. I must either make this installation work, or move to ubuntu (gah!)
edit:
I managed to boot. After the error message at the beginning I'm left with "you can type exit to continue booting, but it will most likely fail"... it doesn't fail, and system appears to be working normally (well, except some error about consolekit when X is starting, probably unrelated).
Now the question is how to avoid this error message at the beginning...
Last edited by senjin (2012-09-15 13:04:04)

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[SOLVED] Problem w/ lxdream after updating/reinstalling OS.

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make
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[SOLVED] charging + touchpad problem after update

*******EDIT*******
after trying some other live cds, the problems below are almost certainly hardware related, with timing of update coincidental.
hi all,
I have a Asus UX32VD. I was travelling for a few weeks and updated when I got home, including the kernel to 3.10.44
now the battery stops charging around 50% (tried two chargers at two different locations)
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Battery 0: design capacity 5863 mAh, last full capacity 4920 mAh = 83%
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Jun 29 11:04:33 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:33 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:33 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
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Jun 29 11:04:47 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:47 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:47 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:47 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:47 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:47 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: issuing reconnect request
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - bad parity
Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: bad data from KBC - timeout
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Jun 29 11:04:48 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
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Jun 29 11:04:50 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: elantech: assuming hardware version 4 (with firmware version 0x361f02)
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Jun 29 11:04:50 maria kernel: input: ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input15
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Jun 29 11:04:52 maria kernel: EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
Jun 29 11:04:52 maria kernel: EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
Jun 29 11:04:52 maria kernel: EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: (null)
Jun 29 11:04:53 maria laptop-mode[11341]: Laptop mode
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Jun 29 11:05:11 maria sudo[11348]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by adlai(uid=0)
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Jun 29 11:05:17 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
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Jun 29 11:05:39 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:05:39 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:05:39 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
Jun 29 11:05:39 maria kernel: psmouse serio4: Touchpad at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost sync at byte 6
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I'm also having some other smaller issues that I'll work on before asking about. I tried rolling back the kernel back to before the update but it didn't change the charging behaviour or help with the touchpad. I'm going to try rolling everything serious-looking back but wanted to post first in case anyone has any ideas.
thanks for the help, and please let me know anything else required.
Last edited by htedrom (2014-07-01 05:01:52)

I have the same problem with the touchpad. It stopped working after update.

[SOLVED]Re-enable TouchPad after updating from Plasma 5.1.2 to 5.2.0

This is my first post here. I have been an Arch user for nearly 2 years now and have finally had to troubleshoot an issue that had no fix on here or in the wiki so I wanted to share. After updating Plasma from 5.1.2 to 5.2.0 my touchpad on my Samsung series 3 was being disabled between the display manager and the KDE splash screen. To fix this I had to re-enable the touchpad in:
~/.config/ktouchpadenablerrc
from
touchpadEnabled=false
to
touchpadEnabled=true
I hope this keeps someone else from 2 days of troubleshooting.
-Shawn
Last edited by coldbloodedgt (2015-02-01 08:41:00)

This would be better in the wiki -- could you add it there please?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KDE

[Solved] Broken arch after update

Hi. I'm trying to install wine. So I uncommented multilib lines in /etc/pacman.conf & made 'pacman -Syu'. After restart system booting stops at "reached target graphical interface". Temporarily I've disable sddm service, so I can login in tty. However some services and modules can't be loaded still. For example I can't load iwlwifi for wireless and nvidia modules. I also tried to reinstall graphics packages such as bumblebee, mesa, nvidia but it's not helped.
'Dmesg | grep -i error' shows nothing. 'cat /var/log/Xorg.0 | grep EE' chows:
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[ 29.999] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 32.017] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 32.017] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 32.017] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 32.017] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
[ 32.017] (EE)
[ 32.017] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 32.017] (EE)
[ 32.017] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 32.018] (EE)
[ 32.022] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
Need help!
When installing arch at first time I didn't create any xorg configs, but may be it should be done now?
Last edited by abook (2015-05-10 01:18:49)

Well, I've loaded fallback image of initramfs. Now it works & show "Linux BooBook 4.0.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Apr 29 12:00:26 CEST 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux". Thank you, guys.

[SOLVED] broken libraries after update

I'm getting this error when trying to start akregator:
error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libkontactinterface.so.4: invalid ELF header
When I run the file command on /usr/lib there are several files that are identified only as "data" including the one producing the above error.
I think this started after pacman upgraded a lot of kde libraries a few days ago. At the end of a pacman run, ldconfig gives errors such as:
ldconfig: /usr/lib/libkpimtextedit.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
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Yes, this seems to be one of the few times to use --force, but only for the kdepimlibs installation. It also begs the question, though, of how those files got there. Did you install any KDE related software manually? If not, your package database may have been corrupted, which would leave me wanting to check the health of the disk (fscks first, then smartmontools).
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[SOLVED] Unable to boot after update

After full system upgrade my arch is unable to boot kernel:
ERROR: device 'UUID=xxx...' not found, skipping fsck.
ERROR: unable to find root device 'UUID=xxx...'
You're being dropped to a recovery shell
I'm pretty sure UUID of /dev/sda2 is correct (double checked with Ubuntu live cd).
Last edited by soroush (2012-09-06 12:20:15)

Then you need to provide more information. Bootloader? Kernel? Tried fallback initramfs?
Edit: OK, you solved it. pacman does regenerate the initramfs if the kernel is updated. It just didn't work for you this time.
Last edited by progandy (2012-09-06 12:21:55)

[SOLVED] GDM/Gnome Issues after Updates

hi everyone!
ive run into some pesky problems (possibly nvidia related) after a full update this morning. after booting up, gdm tries to run, but it crashes and retries over and over again with this message (shown in systemctl status gdm while running):
Failed to contact accountsservice. Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Accounts: GDBus.Error: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.freedesktop.Accounts timed out
i tried installing lxdm and lightdm (the former loaded, the latter didnt), but that also didnt seem to work. with lxdm i couldnt log in to gnome (screen just went black), with lightdm i had no luck at all (didnt start at all).
can anyone point me in the right direction to debug this?
thanks a lot!
regards,
M.
Edit:
i installed nouveau and lightdm again and checked the status with systemctl. seems polkit is looking for a file called libmozjs-17-0.so:
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2014-04-16 17:14:12 CEST; 39s ago
Docs: man:polkit(8)
Process: 6145 ExecStart=/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug (code=exited, status=127)
Main PID: 6145 (code=exited, status=127)
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch polkitd[6145]: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd: error while loading shared libraries: libmozjs-17.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch systemd[1]: polkit.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch systemd[1]: Failed to start Authorization Manager.
Apr 16 17:14:12 arch systemd[1]: Unit polkit.service entered failed state.
i checked /usr/lib and found libmozjs-24.so… weird
Edit 2:
so i reinstalled a package called js17, undid all my changes with lightdm, slim et al, reinstalled nvidia and it seems it works!
marking as solved.
Last edited by miles969 (2014-04-16 16:10:15)

Last update (at 2014-04-16) gives me a great headache.
All my keyboard shorcuts had become useless: freezings reach up to 30 secs.
Number of applications are bricked, i.e. evolution can not to read any message from imap server.
I have a bulk of errors in my journalctl. This is cut of them (Hmm, what do you think about a necessity to punish the guy that invented localized logs?)
$ journalctl -b | grep rror
апр 16 19:16:27 church gdm-Xorg-:0[258]: (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
апр 16 19:16:31 church NetworkManager[177]: <warn> Couldn't acquire object manager proxy: Ошибка вызова StartServiceByName для org.bluez: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.systemd1.LoadFailed: Unit dbus-org.bluez.service failed to load: No such file or directory.
апр 16 19:16:37 church gdm-Xorg-:0[258]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
апр 16 19:16:38 church org.a11y.atspi.Registry[382]: ** (at-spi2-registryd:387): WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
апр 16 19:16:46 church gdm-Xorg-:0[258]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
апр 16 19:16:52 church gnome-session[326]: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: No permission to trigger offline updates: Polkit.Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.freedesktop.packagekit.trigger-offline-update is not registered
апр 16 19:17:06 church org.gnome.Shell.CalendarServer[348]: (gnome-shell-calendar-server:500): ShellCalendarServer-WARNING **: Error opening calendar 1397299558.9767.2@church: ?????????? ??????? ?????????: ??????????? ???????? ?? ????
апр 16 19:23:49 church gdm-Xorg-:0[258]: Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
апр 16 19:26:51 church org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources3[348]: AUTH (1397299494.9760.26@church): Complete (ERROR - Ошибка вызова StartServiceByName для org.freedesktop.secrets: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.freedesktop.secrets timed out)
апр 16 19:26:51 church org.gnome.evolution.dataserver.Sources3[348]: (evolution-source-registry:507): libebackend-WARNING **: source_registry_server_authenticate_done_cb: Ошибка вызова StartServiceByName для org.freedesktop.secrets: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.TimedOut: Activation of org.freedesktop.secrets timed out
апр 16 19:27:12 church chromium.desktop[925]: [925:950:0416/192712:ERROR:nss_util.cc(853)] After loading Root Certs, loaded==false: NSS error code: -8018
апр 16 19:28:00 church kernel: traps: evolution[760] trap int3 ip:7ff69db9c993 sp:7fff6d219560 error:0

[SOLVED] LXDE menu disappeared after update

After last update the menu entries in LXDE menu disappeared. There are only two entries, Logout and Run
Is there any way to restore the menu entries?
Last edited by leonidas (2014-11-17 18:16:14)

nbvcxz wrote:
1. broken panel config
please show (cat) us your panel configuration eg:
cat ~/.config/lxpanel/default/panels/panel
or
cat ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel
especially part Plugin type=menu
With the same problem, my cat showed:
Plugin {
type = menu
Config {
image=/usr/share/lxde/images/lxde-icon.png
system {
separator {
item {
command=run
separator {
item {
image=gnome-logout
command=logout
2. hidden all entities in menu
backup and remove local menu application
mv ~/.local/share/applications ~/.local/share/applications.bak
I did that, and my applications.bak directory contains lots of files with extension of .desktop
3. missing a part of menu
install again lxmenu-data, menu-cache and libfm-extra
sudo pacman -S libfm-extra libfm-extra libfm-extra
Did you mean to put libfm-extra three times?
Did you mean
sudo pacman -S lxmenu-data menu-cache libfm-extra
I tried that, but didn't have any pacman. I used apt-get to get it, and found myself playing pacman :-)
I tried
sudo apt-get install lxmenu-data menu-cache libfm-extra
and got the result:
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package menu-cache
E: Unable to locate package libfm-extra
4. launch panel from termian
if nothing helps start terminal stop lxpanel and start it again from terminal to see the output
lxpanelctl exit
lxpanel
When I run lxpanel (with the bare command, or as someone else suggested, with
lxpanel -p LXDE
) I get the error message
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1"
The panel starts OK, but still has only Run and Logout entries in the START menu.
I am running Ubuntu 13.04, accessing the server through tightvnc.
The file
~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel
begins with
# lxpanel <profile> config file. Manually editing is not recommended.
# Use preference dialog in lxpanel to adjust config when you can.
so I don't want to just add entries the function.
The preference dialog didn't seem to have a way for me to import other START menu entries.
Any help appreciated :-)
Jim

How do i return to a previous system after updating?

After trying to update our IMac to improve how it runs, we are unable to go back to our saved previous system. the entire computer is now set up differently and has none of our information on it. I think it's even running an older OS. I see all of our old files in a folder, on our hard drive, marked "Previous System", but I have no idea how to restore? HELP@!

Most likely you will need to reinstall your third-party software. However, before you do that try instead locating the various support files these applications use. Start with these folders:
/Home/Library/Applications Support/
/Home/Library/Preferences/
/Library/Applications Support/
/Library/Preferences/
Look for files or folders pertaining to your third-party applications. For CS3 you might look for folders named "Adobe" and "Photoshop." In the preferences folder look for files beginning with "com.adobe."
You would then drag these items to the same location in the newly installed system. This is quite tedious but you may not have to reinstall. But no guarantees because Adobe tends to install support files all over the place.

IBook G4 cannot find system after update to 10.4.8 the first startup

Hi,
I recently updated the iBook G4 of my girlfriend from Mac OS X 10.4.6 to 10.4.8. After restart the iBook showed up the icon for not being able to find a system to startup from. I then turned the iBook off and turned it on again, now the iBook started up just fine from the previously updated system.
But since then, every time the iBook becomes started up it's the same procedure: First it cannot find a system to start up from, then we turn the iBook off and on again and then it starts up just fine. Any ideas why?
Additonally, we now found some error with disk utility on the start up disk. I started the iBook from an 10.4.6 installation disk, checked and repaired the disk. The checked it again, no error found anymore... Started up from the iBooks hard drive, checked with the disk utility from the 10.4.8 system there and this one found error again. Does this make sense?
Any ideas are really appreciated!
Regards, Canubis
PowerBook G4 15'', iMac G3 333MHz Grape Mac OS X (10.4.4) Cinema Display 20", .mac, highlighted keyboard

Go to System Preferences > Startup Disk and reselect the system you want to use to startup the computer and then select Restart which should resolve the startup problem.
Started up from the iBooks hard drive, checked with the disk utility
from the 10.4.8 system there and this one found error again. Does
this make sense?
Not sure if this is considered a bug but this has been reported by others which you can ignore.
I use Disk Utility from the Startup volume to repair disk permissions only, never to Verify Disk which you shouldn't use to check the boot volume for any directory errors with Disk First Aid repair via Disk Utility when booted from your Tiger install disc either.
When doing so, better to select Repair Disk right off the bat and if no problems are reported, you are done. No point in selecting Verify Disk to verify again.
If a problem is reported via Verify Disk and you run Repair Disk to repair the problem and if successfully repaired, no point in running Verify Disk again in this situation either. Best to run Repair Disk only and if any problems are reported and successfully repaired, run Repair again until no problems are reported which saves a step/time and is more efficient.
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/durepairfns.html

[Solved] Severely broken system after update

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