Strange "Enter runlevel:" text on start

CheatCat · 2009-08-06 18:51:59

I was trying to run X and everything become black because some error with HAL. I restart and get a strange "Enter runlevel" text. Then I type 1 and I get a error:
"No more processes left in this runlevel"
I have try other numbers, but nothing works!
Please help!

ataraxia · 2009-08-06 21:19:35

You have a broken /etc/inittab. Boot from a live CD and use it to replace it with the one installed by the "initscripts" package.

CheatCat · 2009-08-07 10:55:30

Should I use this command to do that?:

pacman -r \mnt -U initscripts

Last edited by CheatCat (2009-08-07 11:15:09)

ataraxia · 2009-08-07 14:38:19

If you're worried about overwriting something, you can get the file out of the package by hand using plain tar, and copy it in by hand.

Given the importance of inittab, I have to wonder if you'll find there are more things broken after you fix this anyway...

CheatCat · 2009-08-08 18:41:08

When I installed something, think it was xorg, they ask me if I want remove another thing due conflicts or something..
I manged to (re)install the initscripts by:

pacman -r \mnt -S initscripts

Now the computer starts. But, I can't login as root, only as another user! What should I do? Must I reinstall Arch AGAIN? >_<

Last edited by CheatCat (2009-08-08 18:41:29)

djszapi · 2009-08-09 05:01:17

Hello!

What do you mean under 'login as root'? At the login prompt, or can't you use command in root mode, and try to use 'su', and then?

CheatCat · 2009-08-09 15:36:19

I cannot login as root in the login prompt. I have no password because I forget to choose one.. And su doesn't work too, it ask for a password and when I just press enter it say that is wrong.

Last edited by CheatCat (2009-08-09 15:36:37)

plurt · 2009-08-09 20:47:27

well, if you have no root password, you should still be able to log in as root using no password. just press enter. After that just use the 'passwd' command as root to set it.

bostonvaulter · 2009-08-09 21:09:58

or if your user has sudo permissions you can do "sudo passwd root" to set the root password

oscurochu · 2009-08-10 11:27:44

I am having this same problem right after installing xorg and enlightenment. I did 'startx' to test that the x server was set up properly, and my keyboard and mouse didnt work and i realized i forgot to install hal. so i had to hard reboot my computer and now i cannot boot into it.

the method above about fixing the initscripts did not work. it complains initscripts conflicts with udev, remove udev. i tried yes and no, both fail. If i say yes it says it failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies). "initscripts requires udev >= 118, hal requires dev >= 141, mkinitcpio requires udev." You can probably guess what would have happened when I said no. lol

I have a wireless connection with my wusb54gc (drivers for the rt73). I also have ubuntu I can boot into which wireless works on.

CheatCat · 2009-08-11 12:21:59

Yeah, X like to destroy computer OS:s! Maybe both you and me must reinstall arch. But I have tired to do that and I am going to search after another dist then.

plurt wrote:

well, if you have no root password, you should still be able to log in as root using no password. just press enter. After that just use the 'passwd' command as root to set it.

But when I type root it says "Login incorrect"! It doesn't even ask for a password! Seems that I have manged to remove root in some way!
And the other user have no sudo permissions..

Last edited by CheatCat (2009-08-11 12:40:26)

Barrucadu · 2009-08-11 12:45:19

oscurochu wrote:

the method above about fixing the initscripts did not work. it complains initscripts conflicts with udev, remove udev. i tried yes and no, both fail. If i say yes it says it failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies). "initscripts requires udev >= 118, hal requires dev >= 141, mkinitcpio requires udev." You can probably guess what would have happened when I said no. lol

That will be fixed with a -Syu.

CheatCat · 2009-08-14 09:28:18

Yes, I have tried that also, but it didn't work..
Have initscripts something to do with root? I think that because I cannot login as root after reinstalling initscripts..

Gen2ly · 2012-04-27 12:31:33

This problem occured to me when I commented both:

# Boot to console
#id:3:initdefault:
# Boot to X11
#id:5:initdefault:

and uncommented the login manager below, thinking just the login maganer was needed. But no .

Mr.Elendig · 2012-04-27 14:07:22

Gen2ly, you silly necromancer

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2012-04-27 14:08:20)

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Strange "Enter runlevel:" text on start

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