[SOLVED] Login issues, error message "System is booting up"

swedala · 2012-07-04 18:21:42

Hello everyone,

Today when I updated my arch I noticed there was a new kernel update, after the successful update I restarted my archlinux.
Couldn't see any errors during the boot process and I got my login prompt as usual.
But when I'm trying to logon with my user I get below message as soon as I have typed my username.
I cannot even get the password prompt, same problem with all users.

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System is booting up.

Login incorrect
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I can logon with root but I get same warning as above.

In my auth.log file I found below:
login: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM tty1 FOR swedala, Authentication failure

Any ideas of what can be wrong?

Thanks in advance!

//swedala

Last edited by swedala (2012-07-04 20:51:39)

loafer · 2012-07-04 18:53:25

I got this. I logged in as root, did a -Syu then rebuilt the initramfs. When I rebooted it was fine. I don't know what the cause was as pacman.log show the previous -Syu was successful.

Last edited by loafer (2012-07-04 18:53:53)

swedala · 2012-07-04 19:28:13

loafer wrote:

I got this. I logged in as root, did a -Syu then rebuilt the initramfs. When I rebooted it was fine. I don't know what the cause was as pacman.log show the previous -Syu was successful.

Thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately I managed not to solve the problem with your solution.
But to be honest I'm not so experienced with mkinitcpio command, I ran the following below.
mkinitcpio -p linux

No errors as far as I can see...

[root@baldur pkg]# mkinitcpio -p linux
==> Building image from preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 3.4.4-3-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [pata]
-> Running build hook: [scsi]
-> Running build hook: [sata]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [usbinput]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Image generation successful
==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> Starting build: 3.4.4-3-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [pata]
-> Running build hook: [scsi]
-> Running build hook: [sata]
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [usbinput]
-> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> Image generation successful

After the rebuilt I rebooted my arch.
I have still problems to login with all my users.

Last edited by swedala (2012-07-04 19:29:25)

loafer · 2012-07-04 19:33:29

That's exactly what I did to rebuild the initramfs. So, maybe it was the -Syu that fixed it. Try doing a full system update.

swedala · 2012-07-04 19:37:40

Apologize because I did not mention anything about this, but I did a full system update as well.

Last edited by swedala (2012-07-04 19:40:36)

falconindy · 2012-07-04 19:50:21

This was fixed in initscripts last night.

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 22d4fdd6f1

loafer · 2012-07-04 19:53:17

Thanks falconindy.

swedala, Just make sure you are using an up-to-date mirror so you get the latest initscripts.

Last edited by loafer (2012-07-04 19:57:19)

swedala · 2012-07-04 20:04:20

falconindy wrote:

This was fixed in initscripts last night.
https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … 22d4fdd6f1

Ok thanks, the problem is solved now when I changed to a mirror that had the latest initscripts synchronized.

Case closed, many thanks to all

Arch Linux

#1 2012-07-04 18:21:42

[SOLVED] Login issues, error message "System is booting up"

#2 2012-07-04 18:53:25

Re: [SOLVED] Login issues, error message "System is booting up"

#3 2012-07-04 19:28:13

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