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Lilith

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From: Sardinia, Italy

Registered: 2012-04-16

Posts: 117

[SOLVED] Broke my system by uninstalling fontconfig

Hi guys,

i'm trying to install appset-qt and i red some help of developer to try to reinstall the fontconfig (mine had dependencies to fontconfig-ubuntu). Anyway forced to uninstall both, my battery is dead before i can reinstall fontconfig with pacman and now doesn't boot. A strange flickering in loop.
I had tried this from live:

# mount /dev/sda1 /media/oldroot (of course I had to create the directory under /media)
# mount /dev/sda2 /media/oldhome (i don't have the /home partition so i had skipped this part)
# chroot /media/oldroot
# pacman -S fontconfig

Get teh error:

error: could not determine filesystem mount points
error: not enough free disk space
error: failed to commit transaction (unexpected error)
errors occured, no packages were upgraded.

Any chance to get working? I must format and reinstall? ._.
Thanks.

Last edited by Lilith (2012-04-22 19:52:12)

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,156

Re: [SOLVED] Broke my system by uninstalling fontconfig

Moderator edit:  Changed inappropriate title.  If you want to pick something more appropriate, feel free to edit the title

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Lilith

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From: Sardinia, Italy

Registered: 2012-04-16

Posts: 117

Re: [SOLVED] Broke my system by uninstalling fontconfig

Sorry.

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,156

Re: [SOLVED] Broke my system by uninstalling fontconfig

No worries.  Can you boot your system by appending a '1' to the kernel command line in Grub?  It should bring you up to a maintenance mode after a root password prompt.

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Lilith

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From: Sardinia, Italy

Registered: 2012-04-16

Posts: 117

Re: [SOLVED] Broke my system by uninstalling fontconfig

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeah!
I did it!! Many many many many thanks man!

Gabriele.

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