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YZMSQ

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From: Hangzhou,Zhejiang,China

Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 97

[Fixed]A severe problem after my latest update

Hello,there:
I started my life of archlinux just 3 months ago,and everything is OK.As usual,I updated my arch yesterday and nothing wrong at that time.However,when I started my PC today ,I found something strange:I got into xfce4 and just wanna started thunar, just at that time,my CPU hit 100%， my USB mouse and keyboard didn't work. I tried several times but nothing improved.
And then,I tried to reinstall arch.Everything is pretty in my installation before the partition process.In partition process, the installation stopped. I had to reboot it and did it again, but nothing improved.
Finally,I tried to install Ubuntu9.10 while the installation still stopped at partition process as arch.
I bet that there is no problem in the CD of arch and Ubuntu.:(
So what's wrong with my PC?Has any guys here experienced this kind of things?
I really need your help,PLEASE.
P.S.:Hal was included in the packages updated last time so I guess maybe hal contributes to my problem.......:(

Last edited by YZMSQ (2010-03-11 13:34:34)

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mykey

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From: out of the blue

Registered: 2007-03-02

Posts: 113

Re: [Fixed]A severe problem after my latest update

Sounds like a hardware problem to me - try to use some live cd or system rescue cd (sysresccd.org) to look at your hard disk - what is the output of 'fdisk -l' ? Is 'cfdisk' able to read your partition tables ? You should make sure your hardware is ok first - then try to figure out the issue - sometimes a too old cdrom also causes grief.

YZMSQ

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From: Hangzhou,Zhejiang,China

Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 97

Re: [Fixed]A severe problem after my latest update

Sounds like a hardware problem to me - try to use some live cd or system rescue cd (sysresccd.org) to look at your hard disk - what is the output of 'fdisk -l' ? Is 'cfdisk' able to read your partition tables ? You should make sure your hardware is ok first - then try to figure out the issue - sometimes a too old cdrom also causes grief.

thank you.Maybe the key point of my problem is hardware,now I'm trying to resolve it.:(

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YZMSQ

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From: Hangzhou,Zhejiang,China

Registered: 2009-11-18

Posts: 97

Re: [Fixed]A severe problem after my latest update

I have resolved this issue.The connection between my hard disk and my motherboard was crashed at that time.....It's OK now.
Now I'm enjoying arch with xfce....Thank you for your help,really.:)

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