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awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

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[SOLVED] system hosed after upgrade - no X, no network - upgrade bug?

So I did an upgrade last night and hosed my install completely. X didn't start up again, no eth0, no nothing.

According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … iki:usrlib, lib is now a link to /usr/lib. Something must have gone wrong on my system, since my /lib still is a real directory.

At any rate, my issue was that the modules directory was not flound by modprobe anymore, because of the /usr/lib change, I assume. When looking at /usr/lib/modules, I only found one directory "3.4.4-3-ARCH", even though my kernel version is frozen to 3.0-ARCH. So I created a symlink in /usr/lib/modules pointing to /lib/modules/3.0-ARCH, rebooted, and now everything works again.

Hope this helps someone else.

On a side note, anyone know what I need to do to properly upgrade such that my /lib becomes a symlink, or should I just leave things as is? Pacman never complained....

Last edited by awayand (2012-07-15 16:57:44)

ANOKNUSA

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Registered: 2010-10-22

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Re: [SOLVED] system hosed after upgrade - no X, no network - upgrade bug?

It would be helpful if you mentioned which procedures you followed during the upgrade.  /lib should have been done away with automatically if the upgrade was done properly, and symlinking should have been unnecessary (and is undesireable).

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bernarcher

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Re: [SOLVED] system hosed after upgrade - no X, no network - upgrade bug?

Did you ever read and follow this?
Your system otherwise may be in danger now.

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awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

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Re: [SOLVED] system hosed after upgrade - no X, no network - upgrade bug?

@bernarcher: yes, I did. I ran "pacman -Syu --ignore glibc", then I re-ran pacman -Syu, then I ran "pacman -Sd binutils gcc gcc-libs"

EDIT: I should also mention that I have frozen kernel upgrades because of wlan issues anything past the 3.0 kernel...

IgnorePkg   = skype parcellite dwm wine linux postgresql

Last edited by awayand (2012-07-15 13:47:41)

awayand

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Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 398

Re: [SOLVED] system hosed after upgrade - no X, no network - upgrade bug?

works now. glibc did not update, my mistake.

tomegun

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From: France

Registered: 2010-05-28

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Re: [SOLVED] system hosed after upgrade - no X, no network - upgrade bug?

You'll soon run into problems if you freeze the kernel version. Another option is to use linux-lts.