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#1 2009-02-10 01:12:07

Trevorofmolino
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Will not boot after pacman -Syu

Did a pacman -Syu and then rebooted after some programs did not work. When rebooting I get
************FILESYSTEM CHECK FAILED****************
* Please repair manually and reboot. Note that the root        *
* file system is currently mounted read-only. To remount      *
* it read-write: mount -n -o remount,rw /                            *
* When you exit the maintenance shell the will                     *
* reboot automatically.                                                      *
***************************************************
checked drives with fsck and get
/dev/sda3 : Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while reading block 1545
/dev/sda3 : Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read reading journal superblock
/dev/sda3 : Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while checking ext3 journal for /dev/sda3
sda is my second drive for backups and documents/music/photos
sdb is the root/boot/swap drive

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#2 2009-02-10 13:01:15

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

If it is only /dev/sda3 that is giving problems, and it is not necessary for a normal boot,
comment it out in /etc/fstab.

So you could boot normally and inspect the problem with a full running system.

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#3 2009-02-12 22:19:19

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

commented out /dev/sda3 in fstab and rebooted. booted up till it got to going into kde which was the main reason I did  the pacman -Syu  was supposed to update. Now it goes to a black screen with a cursor that does not blink. I cannot type anything or ctl+alt+anything. So I cannot get ot a terminal or any file to check. The computer freezes and I am stuck.

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#4 2009-02-13 01:27:53

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

Things seem more complicated then just a disk that fails the file check. More info is needed.

Possibly you can get out of the black screen into a console by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F1.

Anyhow, are you booting to X directly thru a login manager like Gdm ?
What did pacman upate? You can see it in /var/log/pacman.log.
How does your /etc/X11/xorg.conf look like ?
If nothing works, you can always use a livecd to get into the system.

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#5 2009-02-13 02:08:18

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

Cannot get to anything using ctl+alt+F1,F2,F3...F9, esc,backspace,del  it freezes solid.Pacman updated everything including KDE and Nvidia. I am using the installation disk and mounting /dev/sda3 and going thru that. I removed kdm in the daemons line in rc.conf and changed .xinitrc by commenting out kde and uncommenting xterm but the same results hapen. So I am thinking it may be nvidia but don't know how to gofrom here.

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#6 2009-02-13 07:18:02

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

You could do the folowing: change the line in /etc/inittab:

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault

Doublecheck !

This will boot you to a text console.

X is able to start without a xorg.conf, so rename /etc/X11/xorg.conf:

mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak

Start X with the command line command:

startx

Since there is no xorg.conf X will not use nvidia but just vesa.

If it works, we will see from there.
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#7 2009-02-13 12:06:52

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

changed inittab to 3 and changed etc/xorg.conf to etc/xorg.backup and rebooted. Now at least I am into a terminal without having to use the installation disk.But when I try to start X i geta problem with nvidia
New dirver in "nv"
Fatal server error:
cannot run in framebuffer mode. Please specify busIDs for al framebuffer devices.
giving up
xinit: No such file or directory (errno2) : unable to connect to xserver
xinit: no such rpocess (errno3): server error
Thanks for getting me off life suport, now I can work on the problems

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#8 2009-02-13 15:32:28

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

Better. Some hints:

You can try with a minimal xorg.conf, the following is all thats needed:

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
    Driver        "nvidia"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Default Screen"
    Device        "Configured Video Device"
    DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Drivers to try: vesa, nv, nvidia


If you need a BusId, it will be in the Device section like this:

Section "Device"
    Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
    Driver         "nvidia"  # or nv, or vesa
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

The PCI number you get from:

lspci

in the output there will be a line similar to the following one:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTX] (rev a2)

The PCI number is at the left.

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#9 2009-02-14 01:43:42

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

If I use nv or nvidia with the minimal xorg.conf it goes to the black screen that freezes.  If I vesa I get the black screen with the white x but get kicked out. Checking Xorg.0.log I find
(EE) failed to initialize GLX extentions (compatable NVIDIA x driver not found)
(EE) error compiling keymap (server 0)
(EE) XKB couldn't compile keymap
(WW) couldnt compile keymap falling back to pre-XKB keymap
Checking forums I found that the new nvidia driver 180.22 freezes a lot and two solutions are to revert to olderones or go to the ftp download and get nvidia 180.25 package. But without a X server I dont know how to do it without using pacman. Any ideas?

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#10 2009-02-14 02:02:00

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

Well, I have a Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX and I am using nvidia 180.22-1 drivers with no problems.

Your trouble can originate in wrong permissions and/or missing or corrupted package. Just a guess.

I suggest:

Install xf86-input-evdev thru pacman if not already there.

Prior to start X, set the keyboard with:

setxkbmap us

for "us" keyboard or whatever keyboard you are using. "us" is ok for testinng.

setxkbmap comes with xorg-xkb-utils, install it if needed.

Execute startx as root, to overcome permissions problems.

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#11 2009-02-14 12:24:38

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

went thur the pacman.log and found some problems.
run "hwd -u" to upgrade xorgtable, pci-, andusb.ids
error: could not create database entry dbus-python 0.83.0-2
error: could not create database entry sip-4.7.9-1
error: could not create database pyqt-4.4.4-2
error could not create database libical-0.43.1
in order to use new nvidia module exit Xserver and unload it manually
could it be that I need to remedy these first and that is the root cause or are these unconnected and I continue on trying to repair X?

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#12 2009-02-14 18:04:00

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

Is Trevorofmolino and lmcmehil the same person ?

Anyhow, chech with "df" that you have space on the disk.

If yes, reinstall the packages that failed and pay atention to the error messages.

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#13 2009-02-15 00:48:32

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

My power went out and I had to borrow someones laptop , sorry I didn't pay attention to author.
I did pacman -S sip, pacman -S dbus-python, pacman -S pyqt, and pacman -S libical I got the following results the same from each.
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libkdeinitr_nepomukserver.so is not an ELF file- it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libsoprano.so.4.1.0  is not an ELF file- it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libsopranoclient.so.1  is not an ELF file- it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libkimap.so.4.2.0  is not an ELF file- it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libktnef.so.4.2.0  is not an ELF file- it has the wrong magic bytes at the start
and about 12 more files with the same reason.

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#14 2009-02-15 07:03:16

Mektub
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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

Your system is in quite a big mess.

You DIDN'T answer my question: do you have enough free space on your partitions ??

If you still want to try to fix the system, and AFTER checking that there is enough free space, reinstall
KDE with:

pacman -S kde

paying attention to error messages.

You can always find out to what package a file belongs with:

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libkimap.so.4.2.0

In this case it belongs to KDE.

Of course, you can always reinstall ARCH from scratch. roll

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#15 2009-02-15 12:36:12

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Re: Will not boot after pacman -Syu

did the df and got the following
filesystem                           available        used        mounted on
/dev/sdb3                                 0                    100%        /
none                                        1037524           0%         /shm
sdb1                                         950968             1%         /boot
sdb4                                       110196952        19%       /home
sda1                                        19089112           1%        /home svr
sda2                                        1858948              3%        /home/group
sda3 is commented out  because it has a bad read in the journal. Now I have to figure out why the root got so full when everything but arch and its components were supposed to be installed, filed under /home and /home/svr.

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