[SOLVED] Partitions not mounted on boot / boots to (none)

thepanu · 2012-10-31 22:28:10

I have strange problem after I ran pacman -Syu today. After reboot I can't login and it doesn't show hostname in login window, I do get kdm login screen.

If I select console login or change to tty1 then I can login as root, without any password asked.

After that I am able to mount partitions just fine, and I am also able to chroot in and update the system, didn't help. I also tried downgrading kernel to 3.5.6.1, with no change in behaviour.

I don't have /usr on different partition but decided to try adding usr and shutdown to mkinitcpio hooks anyway, again no improvement.

Recent update only brought shadow.pacnew, which I merged. I do pacnew merges after each update.

Any pointers on where to go next?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by thepanu (2012-11-01 20:21:41)

WonderWoofy · 2012-10-31 23:13:07

What do you mean by "merge"...?

thepanu · 2012-11-01 05:09:19

In shadows case new version was taken into use. With merge i mean that I check if there portions of old file I need to keep and merge those to new file.

thepanu · 2012-11-01 09:56:36

Anyone?

I have now prepared isntall media to do reinstall. Anyone have any ideas on what I could look into before I do that?

Trilby · 2012-11-01 10:11:33

thepanu wrote:

In shadows case new version was taken into use

So, effectively, you removed your user account from shadow.

Check out `man pwconv`

Last edited by Trilby (2012-11-01 10:11:44)

thepanu · 2012-11-01 20:21:25

Changing password helped to getting logging in back to order. Not everything worked after that still. Ended up going to pure systemd system while trying to figure this out and now everything seems to be working as it should. Didn't need to do reinstall.

I seem to remember that in the past I have overwritten shadow file with no problems. But it might be my memory doing tricks.

Thanks for help Trilby.

WonderWoofy · 2012-11-01 21:31:22

You need to understand what you are actually doing when you overwrite old files with new ones. When there is a recommendation to "merge" your pacnew files, that doesn't mean just go ahead and use the new ones. It means you should take the time to see what is in them, see where they differ, and then make an educated decsion on what to do with them from there.

If this is how you have always been handling pacnew files, don't expect that the prolem is totally solved. I would not be suprised if this one sneaks up and bites you in the ass.

thepanu · 2012-11-02 13:57:49

I do diff comparison (with Kompare) with pacnews. With shadow it can't be done, atleast kompare complained about it. But, I remembered (incorrectly) that I had just overwritten shadow last time when pacnew for it was created.

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