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zenny

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Registered: 2008-04-15

Posts: 24

Problems after upgrade

I upgraded to the latest (20111128) archlinux today. But I am getting the problems as follows:

1) Even though I upgraded the kernel and got successfully installed, grub.cfg does not seem to got upgraded! and I fall back to the old kernel.

2) I am getting a message bar on top that says "Your config is outdated, Please fix the warnings to make sure everything works." but whn I click on the 'show warnings' or 'edit config' nothing happens, but when i click on the 'X' (close) the bar gets closed. See attached screenshot (sorry could not attache screenshot as there is no option as such ;-).

3) I could not get the prompt on the console under X11 so that I can execute any command. Tried with evilvte, lxterminal and xterm, none has the prompt.

Any hints?

Last edited by zenny (2011-11-28 14:31:07)

Haptic

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Registered: 2009-09-03

Posts: 149

Re: Problems after upgrade

Is this your first Kernel3.0 upgrade? Have you looked at this?

Last edited by Haptic (2011-11-28 15:30:19)

SanskritFritz

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Registered: 2009-01-08

Posts: 1,954

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Re: Problems after upgrade

(sorry could not attache screenshot as there is no option as such ;-)

http://imgur.com/ and post a link to the picture. or use a thumbnail, dont embed the whole picture into your post, its against the forum etiqette.

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zenny

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Registered: 2008-04-15

Posts: 24

Re: Problems after upgrade

Thanks, Haptic and SanskritFritz!

Despite pointing to the new kernel, I still have the problem. See screenshot at http://i.imgur.com/aO7gC.png (http://imgur.com/aO7gC). :-(

I am stuck in a limbo!!!!

PS: Just wondering why grub2 in archlinux does not discover other linux OSes in other partition besides the new kernel? And what is the command for updating grub (in debian, it is update-grub)?

Thanks!

Last edited by zenny (2011-12-06 14:58:09)

David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

Re: Problems after upgrade

For grub2:

# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

You can install os-prober from AUR to have grub2 find other linux OS's.  I had mixed results with it though.  You can manually add them to /etc/grub.d/40-custom and run the above command again.

Last edited by David Batson (2011-12-06 15:35:25)