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dremanu

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Registered: 2008-11-07

Posts: 10

[Solved]HELP to solve critical problem!!!!

Hi there:

I'm getting the following error when rebooting the system:

"/bin/bash: Error while loading share libraries: Libncurses.so.5 Cannot Open Shared Object File: No such file or directory"

Then the next message will be:

INIT: ID "C2" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes

This line is repeted for another five lines changing form C2, CC3, C4, etc....Then it goes into a loop and just keeps repeating the same thing over and over again. If I click CTRL-ALT-DEL to reboot, it tells me:

"shutdown:warning: cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid
"shutdown:/dev/initctl: No such file or directory"

I've installed Archlinux twice, and twice I ran into the same problem. This happens after I've done the base install, then reboot, works, then added hal, reboot, works, then installed fluxbox, thunar, thunar volume management, firefox, fonts, laptop programs, etc, reboot, problem cames up.

I set-up my system with the following partitions:

/boot
/swap
/
/usr
/tmp
/var
/home

It's a laptop, 1gig RAM 2.40Ghz intel CPU, ATI video card. Everything works fine until I reboot, and then I get this problem. Does anyone have any clue what could be happening, what am I doing wrong, and how I could fix this? I really don't want to waste more time to try and install it again and possibly run into the same problem.

Thank you!

Last edited by dremanu (2008-11-10 16:07:48)

skottish

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Re: [Solved]HELP to solve critical problem!!!!

Install ncurses.

dremanu

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Registered: 2008-11-07

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved]HELP to solve critical problem!!!!

OK, thanks! I'll try that and see if it works.

Regards!

dremanu

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Posts: 10

Re: [Solved]HELP to solve critical problem!!!!

This did not work, unbelievable! The same problem is occuring, even after I've installed "ncurses". 3rd time in a row. It cannot be my machine because I've installed other distro and nothing like this ever happened.

Last edited by dremanu (2008-11-08 05:56:44)

skottish

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Re: [Solved]HELP to solve critical problem!!!!

The first error is out of the way. I don't know much about this stuff, but I believe that it's from settings in /etc/inittab. This is a very vanilla version, maybe even totally:

#
# /etc/inittab
#

#  Runlevels:
#    0    Halt
#    1(S)    Single-user
#    2    Not used
#    3    Multi-user
#    4    Not used
#    5    X11
#    6    Reboot

## Only one of the following two lines can be uncommented!
# Boot to console
id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault:

rc::sysinit:/etc/rc.sysinit
rs:S1:wait:/etc/rc.single
rm:2345:wait:/etc/rc.multi
rh:06:wait:/etc/rc.shutdown
su:S:wait:/sbin/sulogin -p

# -8 options fixes umlauts problem on login
c1:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/2 linux
c3:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/3 linux
c4:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/4 linux
c5:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/5 linux
c6:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -8 38400 vc/6 linux

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

# Example lines for starting a login manager
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/slim >& /dev/null

# End of file

Mr.Elendig

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Re: [Solved]HELP to solve critical problem!!!!

Do an -Syu to make sure your whole system is up to date, just installing/upgrading a small selection of packages can cause problems.

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dremanu

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Registered: 2008-11-07

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved]HELP to solve critical problem!!!!

I do the pacman -Syu right away. Pacman upgrades itself, and everything else is up to date. This is really disappointing, I read so many good things about this distro and then to have a problem like this. I'm going to try one more time by installing an older one and see if it works.

Cheers!

dremanu

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Registered: 2008-11-07

Posts: 10

Re: [Solved]HELP to solve critical problem!!!!

Well, I solved the problem. I wasn't updating the system properly. Now everything is working perfectly, and very fast, just what I wanted. Thanks for the help.

Cheers!