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schoels

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Registered: 2011-10-15

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switch_root: can't execute '/sbin/init:' No such file or directory

Hey everybody,

yesterday I updated my computer ARCH_x86_64, installed yaour from AUR and afterwards I installed skype.
As I started skype it started working but as I tried to change my status everything stoped working. (I know the skype story might be unimportant, but I wanted to give you a complete picture) I couldn't do anything anymore, also the terminals didn't work!
At that point I choose to restart my computer but as I started I got the following Error:

:: Triggering uevents...[      1.357945] xhci_hcd 0000:06:00.0: Failed to enable MSI-X
done.
:: Running Hook [lvm2]
Activating logical volumes...
  No volume groups found
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda1 ...
switch_root: can't execute '/sbin/init: No such file or directory
[    2.612134] Kernel panic - not synicing: Attempted to kill init!
[    2.612222] Pid: 1, comm: switch _root Not tainted 3.0- ARCH #1
[    2.612307] Call Trace:
[    2.612391]  [<ffffffff813eaf0b>] panic+0xa0/0x1ad
[    2.612475]  [<ffffffff81060d43>] do_exit+0x8e3/0x8f0
[    2.612560]  [<ffffffff810610a4>] do_group_exit+0x44/0xa0
[    2.612644]  [<ffffffff81061117>] sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[    2.612729]  [<ffffffff813f4c42>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

I tried chrooting the system from a x86_64 live ARCH but I got the following error:

[root@archiso mnt]# chroot . /bin/bash
chroot: failed to run command '/bin/bash': No such file or directory

But as I checked the directory (not the one in the live system) I found the file /bin/bash. So I started googleing and found out that this could also mean, that the file /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 is not available. But I also checked for that and found I present.

So what can I do to get my computer back running?

Here is some more info on my setup:

I have two Harddrives: sda and sdb
sda is an SDD
sdb is an HDD
sda1 is mounted to /
sdb1 is mounted to /boot
sda2 is mounted to /home
sdb2 is an lvm containing /var swap and an additional data partition
sda2 and sdb2 are encrypted with luks (but that usualy worked, and is working now on my laptop)

If I forgot to lineout some facts, let me know!

Thanks for your help,

schoels

PS: I typed all the code in this post by hand, so no 100% warrenty, but I double checked it, so it should be okay ;-)

Last edited by schoels (2011-11-02 22:28:40)