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NiggasLife

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Registered: 2009-11-26

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Daemons dont start after update && reinstall

I've updated Arch partially (evdev, synaptics, xf86-ati, gcc, gcc-libs, qt4.5, xorg, xserver-xorg, firefox with all dependencies) and everything was great until I've noticed that some of my daemons (httpd, hal, samba) dont start - there's [FAIL] and also ALSA doesnt see my sound card. I've done full update with -Syu, buy it didnt work and there is more bugs now - system load freezes at 'Loading ACPI'. I tried starting with 'acpi=off' and 'load_modules=off', but nothing.

Then I tried to reinstall system (with formatting the partition), but got very same errors. Although, after rolling back to kernel 2.6.30-5 system loaded.

Well, I wanna know:

1. Why did my daemons play tricks.
2. Can I rescue my old system?
3. Can I use Arch with new kernel 2.6.31-6?

Thanks.

PS> Excuse me for my lame English

Last edited by NiggasLife (2009-11-26 21:42:01)

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: Daemons dont start after update && reinstall

1: Could be any number of reasons.  You should have tried manually running the daemons (eg. "httpd" in a root shell) and looking for error messages, and checking your logs in /var/log/*.  In fact, you still should.
2: Only if you backed it up before formatting.
3: There's no reason you shouldn't be able to.  But it would help to know what the problem was/is.

NiggasLife

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Registered: 2009-11-26

Posts: 2

Re: Daemons dont start after update && reinstall

When I start httpd from the root shell, it writes 'Starting HTTPD daemon... [FAIL]' and that's all. Daemon.log tells me nothing - no mention about httpd. In /var/log/httpd I didnt find anything useful, only month-old logs.

The worst thing that freaks me out is reinstalling with formatting - same errors, same sh*t.

jeffreyldavidson

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Registered: 2008-09-05

Posts: 47

Re: Daemons dont start after update && reinstall

I have the same problem with the CUPS daemon. It just will not start and the only message is 'Fail" It has been driving me crazy trying to get it to start either in rc.conf or manually.

Help

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: Daemons dont start after update && reinstall

Don't start it with /etc/rc.d/httpd -- start it manually by typing "httpd".