System suddenly broke - what to do now?
I have been using Arch for a few weeks, so far to good effect. I decided to reboot my machine today though, as it was taking a long time to create a MySQL index and I decided to cancel and restart after a fresh boot.
Alas, now when the system comes up I get my Slim log-in manager before it brings up XFCE4, but, the keyboard now seems totally disconnected from the system. Keyboard works fine in bios, but seems inert with the login manager. Unfortunately, I'm not sure what to do at this point.
I will very much appreciate any suggestions on how to fix this.
Many thanks!
Mark
I was not aware that ARCH was quite this intensive.
Unless someone else installed your system, I don't understand how you could have got this far without realizing that.
There's no such package as udev any more, it's been merged into systemd-utils.
I suggest you boot a LiveCD, configure your network, update and configure pacman, mount the broken Arch install, and use pacman (with the -r flag) to update your broken Arch. Then chroot into it and rerun mkinitcpio for your kernel profile (default is "linux").
tensegrity wrote:Seriously, does one need to spend years going through documentation before being attempting to use arch? Really?
Years? No. A couple a minutes when you encounter a problem doesn't hurt though. It also helps if you already have a good grasp of the basics when you come to Arch.
Last edited by WorMzy (2012-06-15 16:01:00)
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