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konos5

Member

Registered: 2011-03-16

Posts: 56

rootfs boot after pacman upgrade

Hi all,

I just did on my system:

sudo pacman -Syuf 

and rebooted the system (it's worth pointing out that / is running out of space)

Anyway, after I rebooted I can't even boot to console as I get the following message:

...
Decompressing Linux...Parsing ELF...done
Booting the kernel.

ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/number-of-disk/'

You are being dropped to a recovery shell.
Type 'exit' to try and continue booting

sh: can't access tty: job control turned off.

[rootfs /]#

Why is that happening? Is there anything I can do?

Thank you in advance.

ethail

Member

From: Spain

Registered: 2011-02-10

Posts: 225

Re: rootfs boot after pacman upgrade

sudo pacman -Syuf 

Why on earth would you do that?

ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/disk/by-uuid/number-of-disk/'

The error is kind of self explanatory, don't you think?

By using the-f switch to force the update, you overwrote your config files with default config files

-f, --force
           Bypass file conflict checks and overwrite conflicting files. If the package
           that is about to be installed contains files that are already installed, this
           option will cause all those files to be overwritten. This option should be
           used with care, ideally not at all.

EDIT:

boot into an arch install media, chroot into your own system and fix your configurations

Last edited by ethail (2012-02-23 14:38:22)

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konos5

Member

Registered: 2011-03-16

Posts: 56

Re: rootfs boot after pacman upgrade

Thanks for the help!
I used the -f switch because of this:

http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesyste … -required/

Anyway, I did some further research into the matter and found an identical post
with the corresponding solution:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1062346

Problem solved.
Topic closed.

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: rootfs boot after pacman upgrade

Thanks for the help!
I used the -f switch because of this:

http://www.archlinux.org/news/filesyste … -required/

You were told to run 'pacman -S filesystem --force', you run 'sudo pacman -Syuf'.