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theking2

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From: Romanshorn Switzerland

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 372

system bootable after pacman -Syu

Today I attempted an update of my perfectly running system with pacman -Syu

after a reboot I got
modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules.2.6.33-ARCH/modules.deb: No such file or directory

and

Root device ' /dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid>' doesn't exist. Attempting to create it.
ERROR: unable the determine major/minor number of root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid>'.

I booted in a live USB
the device /dev/disk/by-uuid/<uuid> exists perfectly and can be mounted.

how do I convince arch that it can be booted?

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archlinux on a Gigabyte C1037UN-EU, 16GiB
a Promise  PDC40718 based ZFS set
root on a Samsung SSD PB22-J
running LogitechMediaServer(-git), Samba, MiniDLNA, TOR

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

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Re: system bootable after pacman -Syu

Can you run fallback kernel?

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theking2

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From: Romanshorn Switzerland

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 372

Re: system bootable after pacman -Syu

Thinks I tried
boot to live usb
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot

chroot /mnt

pacman -Syyuu
mkinicpio -p kernel26

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archlinux on a Gigabyte C1037UN-EU, 16GiB
a Promise  PDC40718 based ZFS set
root on a Samsung SSD PB22-J
running LogitechMediaServer(-git), Samba, MiniDLNA, TOR

stabele

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Registered: 2008-12-22

Posts: 101

Re: system bootable after pacman -Syu

Edit: obsolete.

Last edited by stabele (2010-04-25 18:59:23)

theking2

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From: Romanshorn Switzerland

Registered: 2009-03-04

Posts: 372

Re: system bootable after pacman -Syu

something must've been amis with the openssl update causing havoc in the pacman process.
what I did to repair:
boot live USB stick
mount /dev/sde3 /mnt
mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/boot
mount /dev/sde4 /mnt/home
chroot /mnt
pacman -Syy
error messages regarding libssl.so.0.9.8. (see seperate thread and made proper links)
pacman -Syy
pacman -Suu

reboot

everything is fine again..

It looks like the libssl maintainer had a problem somewhere or was updating mid-my-update

Last edited by theking2 (2010-04-26 20:59:39)

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archlinux on a Gigabyte C1037UN-EU, 16GiB
a Promise  PDC40718 based ZFS set
root on a Samsung SSD PB22-J
running LogitechMediaServer(-git), Samba, MiniDLNA, TOR