After updating, my system is almost useless!

greenhills · 2009-07-20 00:15:54

Hi,

I updated my system last night and after booting it up this morning I can't use it as I could before. The first thing I noticed was that when I logged into gnome, all I got is a blank screen where I can move the cursor and run some apps. I would get the following error showing up in the notification area:

The configuration defaults for GNOME power manager is not installed correctly, please contact your computer administrator.

I tried reinstalling gnome-power-manager, uninstalling it and then running it, switching to other desktop environments and it still will not work.

I managed to get xfce running, but I can't run many apps. The only way to launch firefox is through the terminal as root. And when I do that I get the following message:

(firefox:3828): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

If I try to run it as a normal user, I get the error:

** ERROR **: Resource problem creating '/tmp/orbit-javier'
aborting...

I then tried to install KDE, but after downloading all the files in pacman, the following happens for every single package.

error: no se pudo escribir al archivo '/var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdegames-4.2.4-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz': No queda espacio en el dispositivo

Which translates to: Cannot write to file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/kdegames-4.2.4-1x86_64.pkg.tar.gz: No space left on the device.
Which is odd, considering I have 200+ GB of free space.

Does anyone have any idea on what happened and how it can be fixed?

Thanks in advance.

Last edited by greenhills (2009-07-20 00:16:58)

windtalker · 2009-07-20 00:33:26

Doubt it will be helpful but I just ditched a fresh two week old Gnome install because I was having problems with it.
I figured it was me as Gnome isn't my WM of choice and I have little experience with it.
I tried adding packages from AUR that were WM independant and they wouldn't install.

==> Starting build()...
./PKGBUILD: line 27: patch: command not found
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Error: Makepkg was unable to build vavoom package.

I also tried installing other WM's as well and Gnome was totally hosed leaving me with a useless system.

cactus · 2009-07-20 01:07:47

@greenhills

do a 'df -h' and make sure your /var/ or / partition isn't full. if you partitioned your drive in a way that /var/cache can fill up, and it did, that could yeild lots of half installed/updated packages..which might be a reason why gnome is acting awful...

greenhills · 2009-07-20 01:37:54

Thanks cactus for your help. When I ran that command I got:
/dev/sda4, only 14% used, mounted on /home
/dev/sda1 only 28% used, mounted on /boot

That´s all that shows up. Now I can´t even start x or run pacman without getting a not enough memory on the device message. Dbus and hal won´t start anymore. I'm stumped :\

Chrysalis · 2009-07-20 01:51:15

How do you not have a /root partition?

Last edited by Chrysalis (2009-07-20 01:52:48)

greenhills · 2009-07-20 01:54:00

I do have a /root partition, and /swap too, but for some reason they're not showing up. It´s all a huge mess

Last edited by greenhills (2009-07-20 01:55:41)

Chrysalis · 2009-07-20 02:04:07

Sounds like something is wrong with your partitions then, try a live cd and fsck.

greenhills · 2009-07-20 02:10:55

Okay, thanks. I'll try that tomorrow.

ElDae · 2009-10-08 05:55:49

I have exactly the same problem as greenhills, but in addition i've noticed that if I start gnome as root it works just fine...

zyghom · 2009-10-08 07:24:28

guys, pacman problem, solved in new package
get the package from bugs site or wait with upgrades till new pacman comes

the_isz · 2009-10-08 08:38:41

I fixed that problem at a friend's computer doing the following:

1. Boot into a live cd (e.g. Arch install cd)
2. Become root
3.
mkdir temp
mount /dev/sda2 temp # replace sda2 with your Arch root partition
cd temp/var/cache/pacman/pkg
rm -f *
cd -
umount temp
4. reboot
5. Hope for the bug being fixed soon

ElDae · 2009-10-08 09:01:39

zyghom wrote:

guys, pacman problem, solved in new package
get the package from bugs site or wait with upgrades till new pacman comes

can't find this package, could you post a link here pls?

Arch Linux

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After updating, my system is almost useless!

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