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jakobm

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Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 132

Various system start problems

I get the following errors on system start up: (kernel26-2.6.27.6-1, udev 130-1)

1.

udevd[356]: specified group 'optical' unknown
udevd[356]: specified group 'disk' unknown

(... for every group)

2.

/etc/rc.sysinit: eval: line 223: syntax error near unexpected token `newline`
/etc/rc.sysinit: eval: line 223: `do_crypt <device DEVNO="..." TIME="..." LABEL="archlinux" UUID="..." SEC_TYPE="ext" TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb2</device>`

(... for every partition)

3.
Boot process gets stuck when 'Starting Network', I do not think it is a network issue because it is simply stuck and it does not break with a timeout.

I had a filesystem issue some days ago, but I *think* I fixed it properly (e2fsck), so there is a slight possibility I damaged it.
What are the key problems behind all this?

Last edited by jakobm (2008-12-04 20:51:23)

kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

Re: Various system start problems

1.

udevd[356]: specified group 'optical' unknown
udevd[356]: specified group 'disk' unknown

(... for every group)

/etc/groups... does that file exist?  if udev can't find *any* groups, it sounds like no.

2.

/etc/rc.sysinit: eval: line 223: syntax error near unexpected token `newline`
/etc/rc.sysinit: eval: line 223: `do_crypt <device DEVNO="..." TIME="..." LABEL="archlinux" UUID="..." SEC_TYPE="ext" TYPE="ext3">/dev/sdb2</device>`

(... for every partition)

um, can you post the your /etc/crypttab?  line 223 of /etc/rc.sysinit is

eval do_crypt "$line"

and $line is a line of /etc/crypttab.  but everything after do_crypt in your code snippet looks nothing like a crypttab line.

Boot process gets stuck when 'Starting Network', I do not think it is a network issue because it is simply stuck and it does not break with a timeout.

have you defined network interfaces, routes, etc. in /etc/rc.conf?  hell, please post yr rc.conf!

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jakobm

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Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 132

Re: Various system start problems

/etc/groups... does that file exist?  if udev can't find *any* groups, it sounds like no.

You are right.

There was a preceding error concering udev I missed:

udevd[356]: unable to open '/etc/udev/rules.d': Not a directory

This put me on an interesting track.

Something definitley messed up with my partition:
/etc/group was deleted.
/etc/udev is a *file*.
/etc/dhcp.conf is a *directory* with files from docbook.
Local pacman database is corrupted.

It looks like I really did harm. Will try a reinstall of all packages.

kludge

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 294

Re: Various system start problems

yikes!  f.u.b.a.r.  good luck, jakobm.

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[23:00:16]    dr_kludge | i want to invent an olfactory human-computer interface, integrate it into the web standards, then produce my own forked browser.
[23:00:32]    dr_kludge | can you guess what i'd call it?
[23:01:16]    dr_kludge | nosilla.
[23:01:32]    dr_kludge | i really should be going to bed.  i'm giggling madly about that.