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I upgraded my system today (I do it every few days) with pacman -Syu. I restarted my system after
and noticed that along with the normal messages the boot up screen displayed a message I hadn't seen
before: "host system error PCI problems?" and it displayed "waiting for udev events to be
processed:busy" for about 25 seconds. Then hundreds of lines scrolled by displaying : /bin/xxx
where xxx= cat,rm,mkdir,chmod, stty, sleep, etc.
my system is set up so that I get a login prompt and I login as root and start gdm which gives me a
gui and I then login as user ( I started doing this due to keyboard issues with arch and this seemed
to work). After the upgrade when I login as root I am given the prompt:
-bash-4.1#
If I enter "gdm" at that point hundreds of lines scroll by like this:
"/usr/bin/tty: line xxx: Oct: command not found" where xxx= 0-163
and then this message is displayed:
** (gdm-binary:15406): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to system bus: Failed to connect to socket
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
Any help fixing this is appreciated.
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Can anyone tell me why I cannot execute commands? If I try to do $ls I get alot of lines scrolling with:
/bin/ls: line xxx: Oct: command not found
maybe if I could just update the system some things would get fixed. But I can't execute commands.
If I'm at the prompt:
-bash-4.1#
and I enter: pacman -Syu I get:
::Synchronizing package databases...
error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database) if you're sure a package manager is not already running, you can remove /var/lib/pacman/db.lck
Please help. Thanks.
Last edited by cool_arrow (2010-10-21 15:29:05)
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