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I recently returned after vocation and made an update.
The kernel was also updated
During the startup of xfce everything freezes when xfce-splash shows the message "Verifying DNS settings"
Tried to exit X with ctrl-alt-backspace, and instead of getting commandline login get the SLIM again
Rebooted with ArchLinux Fallback, from a GRUB
and succeded to login, but
Now I have a wierd problems:
1. wicd doesn't work (so I don't have internet)
2. can't reboot, shutdown (I use xfce)
3. any attemps to edit config files in /etc just freeze
4. trying to reboot after exiting X, says that it is impossible to unmount /, /home,/boot devices are busy
and after message REBOOTING frezzes again
Any suggestion what is wrong
Last edited by ogronom (2008-09-01 14:47:29)
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If you want to get back to a console (i.e. out of X) you have a couple of options:
1) if you use the inittab method to start X (i.e. you are booting into run level 5) then just append a '3' to the kernel line in the grub prompt to boot into run level 3
2) from within X, provided it is accepting input, Crt-Alt-Fn[/] (n = 1-6) will move you to console [i]n and from there you should be able to kill X and/or the Slim daemon.
As for whats wrong, it seems to be something network related so you could check the pacman log for any network related updates.
The dmesg output might also give indications as to what is wrong
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Thanks for the help.
The reasons behind all the mess were unidentified problems with sudo and wicd.
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