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I installed some packages today and did an upgrade. Now certain of my daemons are not starting on boot and I have to start them manually. I tried downgrading the kernel but that didn't help.
Here's my daemons line in /etc/rc.conf -
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus gdm network @ntpd netfs crond dbus hal fam slim sensors mysqld mythbackend motion @monitorix @alsa @sshd samba @cupsd @cpufreq lircd @httpd !ddclient monitd)I haven't checked all of them but monitorix, lircd and httpd all have to be started manually. Something odd has also happened with lirc. irexec doesn't seem to be starting from its startup script. Once I start it manually and do an irw, only the remote's up, down,left and right keys are recognised (and give strange ascii symbolic output to irw) while the other keys don't seem reognised at all.
This is my /var/log/pacman.log from today -
[2012-03-24 07:56] Running 'pacman -Suy'
[2012-03-24 07:56] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-24 07:56] starting full system upgrade
[2012-03-24 08:02] Running 'pacman -Sy --needed totem gstreamer0.10-bad gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins gstreamer0.10-good gstreamer0.10-good-plugins gstreamer0.10-ugly gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins gstreamer0.10-base gstreamer0.10-base-plugins gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg'
[2012-03-24 08:02] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed gstreamer0.10-good (0.10.31-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed gstreamer0.10-good-plugins (0.10.31-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed gmime (2.6.7-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed totem-plparser (2.32.6-3)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed libpeas (1.2.0-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed clutter-gst (1.4.6-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed clutter-gtk (1.0.4-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed mx (1.4.3-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed totem (3.2.2-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed gstreamer0.10-bad (0.10.23-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed musicbrainz (2.1.5-5)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed liblrdf (0.4.0-9)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed fftw (3.3-2)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed libofa (0.9.3-4)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed soundtouch (1.6.0-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed libgme (0.6.0-2)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins (0.10.23-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed gstreamer0.10-ugly (0.10.19-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed libsidplay (1.36.59-5)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins (0.10.19-1)
[2012-03-24 08:02] installed gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (0.10.13-1)
[2012-03-24 08:03] Running 'pacman -Suy'
[2012-03-24 08:03] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-24 08:03] starting full system upgrade
[2012-03-24 08:04] warning: /etc/bash.bashrc installed as /etc/bash.bashrc.pacnew
[2012-03-24 08:04] upgraded bash (4.2.024-1 -> 4.2.024-2)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.90-1 -> 2.02.95-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded gnome-desktop (3.2.1-1 -> 1:3.2.1-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded gnome-doc-utils (0.20.6-1 -> 0.20.9-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded iproute2 (3.2.0-2 -> 3.2.0-3)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded libdrm (2.4.31-1 -> 2.4.32-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded libftdi (0.19-1 -> 0.20-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded libtasn1 (2.9-2 -> 2.12-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-03-24 08:05] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Starting build: 3.2.12-1-ARCH
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Starting build: 3.2.12-1-ARCH
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-03-24 08:05] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-03-24 08:05] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded linux (3.2.11-1 -> 3.2.12-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded lvm2 (2.02.90-1 -> 2.02.95-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded nvidia-utils (295.20-1 -> 295.33-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded mesa (8.0.1-2 -> 8.0.2-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded openssl (1.0.0.h-1 -> 1.0.1-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] warning: /etc/monitrc installed as /etc/monitrc.pacnew
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded monit (5.3.1-1 -> 5.3.2-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded mpg123 (1.13.4-2 -> 1.13.6-1)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded neon (0.29.6-3 -> 0.29.6-4)
[2012-03-24 08:05] upgraded nvidia (295.20-3 -> 295.33-1)
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded opencl-nvidia (295.20-1 -> 295.33-1)
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded openssh (5.9p1-5 -> 5.9p1-8)
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded psmisc (22.15-1 -> 22.16-1)
[2012-03-24 08:06] python2-docutils:
[2012-03-24 08:06] rst* binaries have been renamed to rst*2 to avoid conflict with python-docutils
[2012-03-24 08:06] remember to update your scripts
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded python2-docutils (0.8.1-2 -> 0.8.1-3)
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded python2-feedparser (5.1-3 -> 5.1.1-1)
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded sensors-applet (3.0.0-1 -> 3.0.0-2)
[2012-03-24 08:06] Updating font cache... done.
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded ttf-liberation (1.07.1-2 -> 1.07.2-1)
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded vlc (2.0.0-8 -> 2.0.1-1)
[2012-03-24 08:06] upgraded xf86-input-evdev (2.7.0-1 -> 2.7.0-2)
[2012-03-24 08:33] Running 'pacman -Suy'
[2012-03-24 08:33] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-24 08:33] starting full system upgrade
[2012-03-24 08:48] Running 'pacman -S ffmpegthumbnailers extra/ffmpeg extra/gnome-settings-daemon extra/gconf extra/gconf-editor'
[2012-03-24 08:49] Running 'pacman -Sy gconf gconf-editor gnome-settings-daemon ffmpeg ffmpegthumbnailers'
[2012-03-24 08:49] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-24 08:51] Running 'pacman -S extra/ffmpeg extra/gnome-settings-daemon extra/ffmpegthumbnailer extra/gconf extra/gconf-editor'
[2012-03-24 08:52] upgraded ffmpeg (20120317-1 -> 20120317-1)
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed libgnomekbd (3.2.0-1)
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed libcanberra-pulse (0.28-2)
[2012-03-24 08:52] upgraded gconf (3.2.3-1 -> 3.2.3-1)
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed rtkit (0.10-3)
[2012-03-24 08:52] >>> See the wiki at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio for details
[2012-03-24 08:52] on configuring your system for PulseAudio.
[2012-03-24 08:52]
[2012-03-24 08:52] >>> Make sure to install pulseaudio-alsa to configure ALSA for PulseAudio.
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed pulseaudio (1.1-2)
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed alsa-plugins (1.0.25-1)
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed pulseaudio-alsa (2-1)
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed gnome-settings-daemon (3.2.2-1)
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed ffmpegthumbnailer (2.0.7-3)
[2012-03-24 08:52] installed gconf-editor (3.0.0-2)
[2012-03-24 10:12] Running 'pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/bash-4.2.024-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-24 10:12] warning: /etc/bash.bashrc installed as /etc/bash.bashrc.pacnew
[2012-03-24 10:12] upgraded bash (4.2.024-2 -> 4.2.024-1)
[2012-03-24 10:13] Running 'pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/openssl-1.0.0.h-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-24 10:13] upgraded openssl (1.0.1-1 -> 1.0.0.h-1)
[2012-03-24 10:14] Running 'pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/openssh-5.9p1-5-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-24 10:12] warning: /etc/bash.bashrc installed as /etc/bash.bashrc.pacnew
[2012-03-24 10:12] upgraded bash (4.2.024-2 -> 4.2.024-1)
[2012-03-24 10:13] Running 'pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/openssl-1.0.0.h-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-24 10:13] upgraded openssl (1.0.1-1 -> 1.0.0.h-1)
[2012-03-24 10:14] Running 'pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/openssh-5.9p1-5-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-24 10:14] upgraded openssh (5.9p1-8 -> 5.9p1-5)
[2012-03-24 10:29] Running 'pacman -S bash'
[2012-03-24 10:29] Running 'pacman -Sy bash'
[2012-03-24 10:29] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-24 10:29] warning: /etc/bash.bashrc installed as /etc/bash.bashrc.pacnew
[2012-03-24 10:29] upgraded bash (4.2.024-1 -> 4.2.024-2)
[2012-03-24 10:40] Running 'pacman -Suy'
[2012-03-24 10:40] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-24 10:40] starting full system upgrade
[2012-03-24 10:40] upgraded openssl (1.0.0.h-1 -> 1.0.1-1)
[2012-03-24 10:40] upgraded openssh (5.9p1-5 -> 5.9p1-8)
[2012-03-24 10:45] Running 'pacman -Sy irw'
[2012-03-24 10:45] synchronizing package lists
[2012-03-24 11:17] Running 'pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/linux-3.2.11-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz'
[2012-03-24 11:17] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-03-24 11:17] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Starting build: 3.2.11-1-ARCH
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Starting build: 3.2.11-1-ARCH
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-03-24 11:17] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-03-24 11:17] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-03-24 11:17] upgraded linux (3.2.12-1 -> 3.2.11-1)
(END)I know I should have upgraded before installing the new packages but I'd be surprised if that was the cause of the problem.
Any help or pointers would be very much appreciated.
Thanks
belbo
Last edited by belbo (2012-03-24 22:46:30)
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Why do you have gdm and slim at the same time?
I 'm not sure how it works if you happen to have at the same time.
Your dbus has to be at the front.
Hal is deprecated.
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Thanks for the pointers. I'll check those issues out - however it has been set up like that for at least 6 months and these issues are new, so probably not the source of the problems, but will report back.
The problem with lirc not working properly has been temporarily solved by issuing this command as root, as per this post
echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocolsHowever, I had already addressed that issue months ago - I had to add a few extra lines to rc.local for reasons I'll link to if I can find that thread.
I had (have just commented out the other lines to see what happens on next restart) -
echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc0/protocols
#echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc1/protocols
#echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc2/protocols
#echo lirc > /sys/class/rc/rc2/protocolsI'll make some changes and restart my machine later and see what happens. Any other obserations appreciated in the meantime.
Last edited by belbo (2012-03-24 01:58:41)
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Did you remember to merge all the pacnew files?
[2012-03-24 08:05] warning: /etc/monitrc installed as /etc/monitrc.pacnewOffline
Things have gone from bad to worse -
I edited the Daemons line which now looks like this -
DAEMONS=(dbus syslog-ng !gdm network @ntpd netfs crond !hal fam slim sensors mysqld mythbackend @motion @monitorix @alsa @sshd samba @cupsd @cpufreq lircd @httpd !ddclient @monitd)I also upgraded the kernel (after downgrading before) with a pacman -Suy which also installed some new xorg packages.
[2012-03-24 20:38] starting full system upgrade
[2012-03-24 20:39] upgraded chromium (17.0.963.79-1 -> 17.0.963.83-1)
[2012-03-24 20:39] upgraded fontsproto (2.1.1-2 -> 2.1.2-1)
[2012-03-24 20:39] upgraded kbproto (1.0.5-2 -> 1.0.6-1)
[2012-03-24 20:39] upgraded libxaw (1.0.9-2 -> 1.0.10-1)
[2012-03-24 20:39] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-03-24 20:40] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Starting build: 3.2.12-1-ARCH
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Starting build: 3.2.12-1-ARCH
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-03-24 20:40] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
[2012-03-24 20:40] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded linux (3.2.11-1 -> 3.2.12-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded recordproto (1.14.1-2 -> 1.14.2-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded scrnsaverproto (1.2.1-2 -> 1.2.2-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xcb-proto (1.7-2 -> 1.7.1-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xextproto (7.2.0-2 -> 7.2.1-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xf86-video-vesa (2.3.0-8 -> 2.3.1-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xorg-luit (1.1.0-3 -> 1.1.1-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xorg-setxkbmap (1.2.0-3 -> 1.3.0-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xorg-xauth (1.0.6-1 -> 1.0.7-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xorg-xgamma (1.0.4-3 -> 1.0.5-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xorg-xhost (1.0.4-3 -> 1.0.5-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xorg-xkbcomp (1.2.3-1 -> 1.2.4-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xorg-xkbevd (1.1.2-3 -> 1.1.3-1)
[2012-03-24 20:40] upgraded xorg-xmodmap (1.0.5-3 -> 1.0.6-1)Now I seem to be getting a lower level problem. After grub the system is now giving me a message that it can't find or mount the root partition. I'm also getting this message when trying to boot my fallback root partition (cloned about a week ago) but can succesfully boot my previous fallback root partition (cloned about 6 months ago). (All on the same hdd). Very strange and a real bugger. Things were working beautifully up until those really-pretty-minor upgrades this morning.
Re some of the specific items referred to above -
Merging pacnew files-
I went through them all again but all looks good. I don't delete the pacnew's. I keep them and comment where I have made changes in the in-use files. BTW I use meld with this excellent command (as su) to compare my files vs the pacnew's.
for file in $(find /etc -name '*.pacnew'); do meld ${file/.pacnew/} $file; doneRe lirc -
This is the post I was referring to. My dvb-tuner cards are recognised as IR devices as well and I think the order of loading was random, hence requiring all of those lines.
It is working fine in the 6-month old fallback partition I am currently booted into.
I know there are separate threads about the unable-to-mount-root-partition issue as I've had that problem in the past, so back to those it seems.
If anybody has some brainwaves to help me in the meantime I'd really appreciate it. I have made a lot of changes since my fallback partitions and would love to boot my latest root partition have it working normally.
Thanks
Last edited by belbo (2012-03-24 11:06:35)
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Well all seems to be working fine now. No idea what the problem was. Rebooted a few hours after last post and again several hours later and all seems good.
I did add "quiet" after ro in the kernel line /grub/menu.lst as suggested by some of the forums dealing with booting the kernel problems. Not sure if that was the solution to the booting problem but who knows. A mysterious and concerning episode, but holding thumbs all seems to be working normally again.
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