Arch Linux

Malo

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Registered: 2006-12-02

Posts: 43

Arch doesn't boot anymore

Hi.. i've just rebooted my arch after 4days.. and it doesn't boot up. I just updated the kernel.. the last one.
At start, it stop at "Checking Filesystem".. [FAIL]
Then he told me that i have to insert the root password and repair manually the filesystem, after remount the root partition as rw. I use xfs filesystem.
There is a command to check the filesystem? I don't know why he doesn't do it automatically..

Please, help me because i had to start win for the first time after 6 month to write this post..

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,411

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

Sounds like there is a problem with one of the filesystems on your computer.  You have to boot with some kind of live/rescue cd and perform a fsck.xfc (for xfs filesystems) procedure on the partition that's causing trouble.

Last edited by fwojciec (2008-02-21 22:38:25)

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

Sounds like there is a problem with one of the filesystems on your computer.  You have to boot with some kind of live/rescue cd and perform a mkfs.xfs (for xfs filesystems) procedure on the partition that's causing trouble.

won't this delete like all your data?

i guess if you typed in your root password, a simple
fsck.xfs -y
should be enough
if not, see the man page of fsck.xfs for further details
man fsck.xfs

fwojciec

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Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

Thanks for pointing that out -- you are obviously right -- what was I thinking...  I edited my previous post.

mini

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Registered: 2006-12-18

Posts: 132

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

I have got the same error, fsck.xfs does not help. I am on testing repository and have update yesterday filesystem to v. 2008.02-2.
Could it be reason that Arch doesn't boot anymore?
edit
I have find this bug
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9640

Last edited by mini (2008-02-22 06:38:25)

sargon

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Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 18

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

I have the same problem and found an solution, when I try to fsck my disk I experience that /dev is nerly empty.
So I check what's going wrong, and in my case it seems that someone has forgotten the /etc/start_udev file so
/dev gets static.

So I set up my network and do a
pacman -S core/udev

and downgrade to 116-3 ... rebooting and tada, boots like there was never any problem

edit: hm should have read the bug report first

Last edited by sargon (2008-02-22 11:13:44)

Oblong_Cheese

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 44

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

Could somebody please post instructions on how to fix this issue for those not familiar with LiveCDs / rescue disks?

FeatherMonkey

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Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 313

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Panics in the wiki more specific for kernel, hopefully you know how to bring the network up if you don't have a locally stored file.

Not sure enabling testing is correct if unsure how to fix though.

Last edited by FeatherMonkey (2008-02-22 14:05:13)

Malo

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Registered: 2006-12-02

Posts: 43

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

So I set up my network and do a
pacman -S core/udev

and downgrade to 116-3 ... rebooting and tada, boots like there was never any problem

OK.. now i try to get the core/udev packet..

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

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Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

So I set up my network and do a
pacman -S core/udev

and downgrade to 116-3 ... rebooting and tada, boots like there was never any problem

OK.. now i try to get the core/udev packet..

after downgrading
if u are still looking for a fix, u need to

pacman -Syy initscripts udev

both packages are in testing. So you will need to enable the testing repository

Last edited by jacko (2008-02-22 17:44:22)

Malo

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Registered: 2006-12-02

Posts: 43

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

So I set up my network and do a
pacman -S core/udev

and downgrade to 116-3 ... rebooting and tada, boots like there was never any problem

OK.. now i try to get the core/udev packet..

Way 2 go.. It works

Oblong_Cheese

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Registered: 2007-01-25

Posts: 44

Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

I have updated my initscripts and udev from testing but this hasn't fixed my problem.

When I boot now, during the process of loading modules and starting services, my screen resolution changes (which I guess is part of the new initscript), and is helpful beacuse it allows me to see more of the problem I'm having...

Anyway, after "Loading udev uevents", I get a message printed saying something about "Bad superblock on /dev/sda3, last edit time in the future. FIXED.", but immediately thereafter, none of my filesystems are mounted properly, and the system hangs on "Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer"

Any ideas?

I have already booted into the Arch installation environment and run an fsck on all my filesystems, they checkout OK.

Edit: False alarm, this has nothing to do with the aforementioned bug. It's because I was playing around in my fstab last night and forgot I had made changes this morning when I turned my PC on. Silly me.

Last edited by Oblong_Cheese (2008-02-23 02:11:25)

lilsirecho

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Re: Arch doesn't boot anymore

Check the bios setting for time and year.....

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