[SOLVED] System froze and won't boot.

When I pluged in my power adapter on my laptop my entire system froze and forced me to cut the power.
Now when I try to boot it I get several errors about mounting and udev and more which I can't catch in the speed. Then it enters a long loop of printing
systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
And finally prints:
systemd[1]: Failed to start Journal Service.
systemd[1]: Failed to start Emergency Shell.
systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Emergency Mode.
Now only thing I can do is reboot, with the same result. I have no clue what to do so now I reach out for help here.
Thanks in advance.
- Richard
Last edited by ri (2012-12-15 09:36:20)

ontobelli wrote:
Kernel 3.7.0 + laptop-mode-tools are freezing the laptop when switching from battery to A/C.
As a workaround uninstall laptop-mode-tools until problem is fixed.
Indeed this was the cause.
Anyway I've manage to solve it, here is the steps:
1) Boot a live cd
2) Set up and enter a chroot according to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=154625
3) Disable [testing] from /etc/pacman.conf
4) Run:
pacman -Syyf util-linux
pacman -Syyf linux linux-headers
I got som wierd errors at first which was gone after reinstalled util-linux.
And to get rid of the cause:
pacman -R laptop-mode-tools
5) Although this did not really work out so I did:
mkinitcpio -p linux
6) Exit chroot and reboot.
Maybe not all of those cammands are needed but that's how I solved my problem(s).

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