My Arch Box just shat itself

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-04 10:51:56

Booted up this morning and noticed some weird stuff. I get thrown into CLi halfway through boot up before any modules are loaded. No i dont use the testing repo and i dont play with my conf files regularly either.

Last edited by b0uncyfr0 (2008-06-04 10:57:24)

Sp4rkR4t · 2008-06-04 10:53:24

Was it after a system update that it did this, or what did you change?

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-04 10:58:53

Im not sure if i did an update but what else could mess it up sp badly??

Allan · 2008-06-04 11:00:38

Did you do an update recently. If so what did you update (see /var/log/pacman.log)?

Edit: Man I took a long time to hit submit... I blame the House season finale.

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-04 11:04:03

For the past 3 days

[2008-06-01 23:22] upgraded acetoneiso2 (2.0.2-1 -> 2.0.2-2)
[2008-06-01 23:22] installed libxml2 (2.6.32-1)
[2008-06-01 23:22] upgraded libxslt (1.1.23-1 -> 1.1.24-1)
[2008-06-02 00:23] synchronizing package lists
[2008-06-02 00:23] starting full system upgrade
[2008-06-02 08:57] synchronizing package lists
[2008-06-02 08:57] starting full system upgrade
[2008-06-04 19:58] synchronizing package lists
[2008-06-04 20:11] synchronizing package lists
[2008-06-04 20:11] synchronizing package lists

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Allan · 2008-06-04 11:06:32

Nothing of interest there... Do a filesystem check (touch /forcefsck).

sniffles · 2008-06-04 11:16:36

Are you getting any errors etc. ?

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-04 11:22:32

I run touch/ forcefsck and nothing.

Yes i think i see an error but i get thrown in cli too quickly to read it. Is there a way to pause...

I picked up one thing ( Fatal:Module sky2 not found)

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Allan · 2008-06-04 11:39:10

Sorry, I wasn't clear. If you do a "touch /forcefsck" then on your next reboot it will check the filesystem.

Ramses de Norre · 2008-06-04 12:09:43

Look in /var/log/messages.log for the error message.

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-04 12:32:29

There are no errors in messages.log

After a few reboots i was able to write a few things down. Something to do with kdm and /etc/rc.multi line 18. And line 18 is /etc/rc.d/$daemon start

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Allan · 2008-06-04 12:36:15

b0uncyfr0 wrote:

Something to do with kdm and /etc/rc.multi line 18. And line 18 is /etc/rc.d/$daemon start

OK. That line starts the daemons. So, if the problem is with kdm, remove it from the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf and just boot to shell. If that goes well, I would try reinstalling kdm and see if that fixes it.

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-04 12:59:43

Just before i got into shell i saw a similar problem with syslog-ng which is 2nd in the daemon list ( i removed kdm from the list). This time it was something to do etc/rc.d and no such file or directory. I think something is stopping my daemons from being loaded.

Allan · 2008-06-04 13:09:16

Are the daemon start scripts in /etc/rc.d? Do their permissions look right?

Llama · 2008-06-04 13:29:08

b0uncyfr0, do you by any chance have more than one SATA hard drive?

klixon · 2008-06-04 13:29:21

Maybe you have a hard-to-spot typo in /etc/rc.conf
Post it here so we all can take a peak

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-04 13:41:02

(To Allan) Yes the startup scripts are in /etc/rc.d but im in Xp right now so i cant be sure of the permission.

Yep i got two Sata's

Heres my rc.conf

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
USEDIRECTISA="yes"
TIMEZONE="Australia/Sydney"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
#
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
#
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(sky2 slhc snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="Arch"

# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
#
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#
eth0="eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)

# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This now requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond hal sensors alsa ksensors samba)

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Llama · 2008-06-04 14:39:59

Yep i got two Sata's

Then it could be a known issue:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=47536
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-05 06:46:43

Im lost atm. I dont know what to do. Any suggestions?

Allan · 2008-06-05 07:22:42

Did you try the persistent device naming as suggested by Llama above?

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-05 08:30:13

Im already using uuid for booting and mounting my drives.

b0uncyfr0 · 2008-06-07 00:31:31

Im going to format today. This has gone on long enough.

jacko · 2008-06-07 00:46:42

do u need a loopback device in rc.conf? I don't remember if its that important.

Zepp · 2008-06-07 01:20:28

b0uncyfr0 wrote:

I run touch/ forcefsck and nothing.
Yes i think i see an error but i get thrown in cli too quickly to read it. Is there a way to pause...

CTRL+S freezes the terminal output. CTRL+Q will resume it.

Last edited by Zepp (2008-06-07 01:21:39)

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