rc.sysinit screwed after pacman -Syu

JMO · 2011-02-27 19:27:50

Early today I made a pacman -Syu. There where only 2 packages to upgrade, and I went go on (I couldnt find those packages specified in pacman.log. It only says "Full system upgrade". How can a know those?) Couldnt find anything in the forums regarding this as well.

I do remember too, that one of those give and output after upgrading saying that inittab (I think) and rc.conf were installed as inittab.pacnew and rc.conf.pacnew

The thing is that when I booted again this afternoon, the booting process launched handful of errors on different lines of /etc/rc.sysinit, all of them of "command not found". Now the login prompt says "(none) login:", my keyboard layout changed to default, home is not mounted, etc...

How can I debug this?

Thanks in advance!

karol · 2011-02-27 20:22:14

All those files (inittab, rc.conf and rc.sysinit) are from initscripts package that got updated today. Have you looked at / merged the pacnew files?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 82#p829382

Last edited by karol (2011-02-27 20:28:07)

JMO · 2011-02-27 20:47:32

Unfortunately yes. I replaced rc.sysinit and inittab with the pacnew versions. Not so with rc.conf.
Damn... I messed it up again.

karol · 2011-02-27 21:17:33

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 60#p897160
You should have those files in your backup. If not, try to recreate them from memory.

JMO · 2011-02-28 02:50:35

I'm going through a complet system reinstall. Unfortunately, I overwrited those files. Hope to have learned something in the pas one to make these one a breeze

Thanks for the help!

insanemal · 2011-03-01 06:47:20

After pacman -Syu today I get the same issue minus any error messages
attempting to launch /etc/rc.sysinit gives you a seg fault.

Im totally lost as to what to do.

EDIT:

Found the problem... Broken bash???
Downgraded my bash and the world started working!!!

any ideas????

EDIT 2:

Its the testing bash

Last edited by insanemal (2011-03-01 07:10:48)

Skyalmian · 2011-03-01 07:13:31

^ the same situation as above, and like you figured it to be Bash. (The segmentation fault errors don't show up when "quiet" is in the kernel boot line.) But with the hostname as "none" the filesystem is read-only; how did you downgrade it? Or rather, how does one downgrade a package on a mounted filesystem via the Arch Live CD such as /mnt/root? ... I guess a dirty use of "cp" would be required if not possible with pacman...

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zyghom · 2011-03-01 07:29:38

same here :-(

I made dirty copy from old bash from /var/cache/packages/pkg
then once system is up I made pacman -U with old bash

this is critical - system cannot start at all - such mistakes should be on first page - sticky or whatever

Last edited by zyghom (2011-03-01 07:47:04)

karol · 2011-03-01 10:48:54

Could any of you gentleman clearly state which version of bash are you using? "Its the testing bash" suggests you should be prepared for breakage and you should know how to deal with it. If it's the regular bash from [core] then indeed ti's critical and should be looked into ASAP.

borrell · 2011-03-01 10:55:50

4.2.005-1 is the version with issues, booting from a live CD and replacing /bin/bash with an earlier version fixes the problem. I reverted back to 4.1.5-something and it's fixed it

Allan · 2011-03-01 10:57:21

4.2.005 was put in the repos 24 hours after the original post here... so there is probably two separate issues.

ngoonee · 2011-03-01 11:02:55

Allan wrote:

4.2.005 was put in the repos 24 hours after the original post here... so there is probably two separate issues.

ML seems to indicate that bash or readline are causing non-bootable systems too, though. Possibly the OP simply didn't reboot immediately?

I've updated bash/readline but haven't rebooted yet....

Ramses de Norre · 2011-03-01 11:10:55

Hmm, nevermind, sorry.

Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2011-03-01 11:11:59)

Rasi · 2011-03-02 10:27:45

I can confirm that downgrading to bash 4.2 fixes the issue.

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rc.sysinit screwed after pacman -Syu

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