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gothormr

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From: Italy

Registered: 2010-10-20

Posts: 2

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Boot sequence broken after a system update

Hi all,
after a system update I can't login to my laptop.

The boot sequence is broken, and all I have is a strange login prompt:

Arch Linux 3.3.7-1-ARCH (tty1)

(none) login:

My laptop name is "nettuno", not  "(none)" :-P

I can write my username, but when I press enter the screen is cleared and the same prompt is shown.

I can switch to other virtual terminal, but the problem remain.

Any suggestion?

thanks,
fabio

Last edited by gothormr (2012-05-25 00:31:54)

loafer

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From: the pub

Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 1,772

Re: Boot sequence broken after a system update

When you say boot is broken what are the error messages?  You may need to boot from a cd and then take a look at pacman.log to see what was upgraded.  Did you merge any *.pacnew files after updating?

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kurych

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From: Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2011-12-07

Posts: 27

Re: Boot sequence broken after a system update

If you have /usr on separate partition, you must include HOOK "usr" in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf after last upgrade "mkinitcpio" package. Look theme https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142072 for more details.