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Silenzium

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Registered: 2011-05-03

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[SOLVED] Failed to execute /init after sys upg; /tmp out of space

Hi there,

I just made a complete system upgrade with -Syu. It went smoothly, but after the upgrade, several KDE programs started to crash; so I rebooted (unfortunately). Now I'm stuck with the error messages as follows:

Failed to execute /init (error -13)
: can't log to /dev/tty5
starting pid 181, tty '':  '/etc/init.d/rcS'
: can't log to /dev/tty5
can't run '/etc/init.d/rcS': No such file or directory.

Please  press Enter to activate this console : can't log to /dev/tty5
: can't log to /dev/tty5
: can't log to /dev/tty5
can't open /dev/tty2: No such file or directory.

And so on...

Fallback kernel doesn't work, too. I assume that I need to boot with a live environment and chroot, but what shall I do then? Downgrade the kernel? Unfortunately, I only have a Linux Mint Live environment at the moment. Can I use this one as well?

Last edited by Silenzium (2019-06-18 20:36:30)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to execute /init after sys upg; /tmp out of space

First of all look into the pacman log. I doubt the update went all that smoothly…
The initcpio seems broken, often because you ran out of space on the boot partition.
So check that as well as the size and contet lsinitcpio) of the initramfs.

You can only chroot if Mint is 64bit, but you can certainly inspect the logs and partitions and files offline (ie. just running mint and treating the arch installation as some unrelated mount)

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Silenzium

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-05-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to execute /init after sys upg; /tmp out of space

You were right, due to some space problem, initcpio failed. Pacman could show failures like this a little bit more obvious, though. I was able to rebuild it with a live environment.

After this, X failed because at the same time nvidia-340xx was deprecated, but the AUR version works for now.

All good for the moment. Thanks for your help.

Silenzium

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to execute /init after sys upg; /tmp out of space

The broken initcpio is only a side-effect of a different error: /tmp is running out of disk space because of a several GB large file called magick-198259mDP4uceohfC.pam. Can somebody tell me where this file might be coming from?

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to execute /init after sys upg; /tmp out of space

https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick/issues/395
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-s … hp?t=29225

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Silenzium

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-05-03

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Failed to execute /init after sys upg; /tmp out of space

Strange, I don't use imagemagick directly, so it needs to be another program. I suspect digikam might be the suspect.

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Failed to execute /init after sys upg; /tmp out of space

ImageMagick is used by A LOT of stuff, but this only happens when you're editing HUUGE data.

If the original problem remains solved, though, please do not "unsolve" it and change the topic, instead open a new thread (w/ appropriate subject)

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