Boots to "(none) login:" after upgrade

cm100 · 2012-06-17 09:13:50

After my last

pacman -Syu

my system boots into

Arch Linux 3.3.7-1-ARCH (tty1)
(none) login:

So I cannot login anymore. Any idea how I can fix this?

Gcool · 2012-06-17 09:22:34

I'm not sure I fully understand the issue. That looks like a normal login prompt to me.

What happens if you try to login there (tty output, logging,...)?

DSpider · 2012-06-17 09:24:20

(none) login:

It should say "your_hostname login:"

So I'm thinking you don't have a proper /etc/rc.conf. Here's mine:

LOCALE="en_US.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Bucharest"
USECOLOR="yes"
HOSTNAME="arch"

MODULES=(vboxdrv)

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus ufw crond alsa networkmanager)

Post your /etc/inittab and /etc/fstab.

cm100 · 2012-06-17 09:37:53

Gcool wrote:

I'm not sure I fully understand the issue. That looks like a normal login prompt to me.
What happens if you try to login there (tty output, logging,...)?

If I type in my loginname and press enter instead of asking the password it just changes to a fresh loginscreen as posted above. If I press then

Ctrl+Alt+Enter

it displays

/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

and

shutdown: warning: cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid

 fstab

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

UUID=280a8721-3e78-4910-af7f-875d3d553877 /home ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=4bcc61c2-ad4c-41e4-bf5e-fb505599e748 /opt ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=7db71d4f-0ee6-4c61-a124-8be6e39438e0 /var reiserfs defaults,notail 0 1
UUID=965b4303-e912-4555-8d92-893bca489a0e /usr ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=d0023b70-4375-41de-add2-4a9acf19dddf / ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=b253dbf4-cdc6-43b2-9ecc-9ed50b2fc84c /home/myuser/backup ext4
defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=f8a0b36f-f007-42cc-b492-272692a8ee58 swap swap defaults 0 0
defaults,noatime 0 1

/etc/rc.conf

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime", any other value will result
#   in the hardware clock being left untouched (useful for virtualization)
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="de_DE.UTF-8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Berlin"
KEYMAP="de-latin1"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
#
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
#
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=(powernow-k7 cpufreq_ondemand)

# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
#
HOSTNAME="arch"

# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
#
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
#   - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
#   - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# 
# DHCP:     Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#

#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(eth0)

# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
 
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up.  These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
#
# This now requires the netcfg package
#
#NETWORKS=(main)

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond cpufreq hal gdm)

Last edited by cm100 (2012-06-17 10:08:21)

DarkCerberus · 2012-06-17 09:56:51

Try seeing if the rc.conf has been moved, if it defaults to the console logon screen then usually it means that something has changed the rc.conf file - like for example lxdm or gdm was removed in the Daemons section after upgrade.

If it has been upgrade you might be using the new kmod - the rc.conf file might be located at /etc/rc.conf.pacnew or /etc/rc.conf.pacsave if so move /etc/rc.conf.pacnew to /etc/rc.conf

DSpider · 2012-06-17 09:59:11

/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Readline... -__-

NEVER use pacman -Syuf or pacman -Sy foo ! If you did this before, stop it.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 61#p802661

Incidentally, Firefox was updated recently, EXACTLY like in the story. The correct way to install shit is using:

# pacman -Syu
# pacman -S foo

Or just:

# pacman -Syu foo

cm100 · 2012-06-17 10:09:03

DSpider wrote:

/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Readline... -__-
NEVER use pacman -Syuf or pacman -Sy foo ! If you did this before, stop it.

I didn't do this.

DSpider · 2012-06-17 10:11:06

I still think it's PEBKAC. It's just too similar.

Chroot and update your system.

Last edited by DSpider (2012-06-17 10:12:58)

cm100 · 2012-06-17 11:54:07

Ok, I did Chroot and try to update the system via

pacman -Syu

.

First message

Replace notify-sharp-svn with community/notify-sharp? [Y/n]
Replace sqlite3 with extra/sqlite? [Y/n]

Just did Enter in each case.

Then I get error messages about GPGME Bad file descriptor and missing required signatures.

Trilby · 2012-06-17 11:55:54

Have you merged pacnew files? Have you ever merged pacnew files?? That rc.conf looks *very* old. A recent change will give you problems without DAEMON_LOCALE="yes", but this would be a minor issue. Is there a reason you are still using hal?

cm100 · 2012-06-17 12:12:50

Trilby wrote:

Have you merged pacnew files? Have you ever merged pacnew files?? That rc.conf looks *very* old. A recent change will give you problems without DAEMON_LOCALE="yes", but this would be a minor issue. Is there a reason you are still using hal?

Oh, I don't know what it means to merge pacnew files. The arch system is just a test system: Currently I am using ubuntu on my main system, however I got the impression that archlinux might be better :-). However arch is rolling release whereas ubuntu is not. If I need a new application in ubuntu I just install it. In arch I often must update lots of packages before I can do this. So I wanted to test arch first before switching and installed it on my old laptop just for testing, playing around and using it as a second machine for surfing the web etc. I didn't invest much time in that archlinux system, just updated packages every few month. That might be the reason why rc.conf looks very old.

Trilby · 2012-06-17 12:23:26

And that would be why you are now having problems. Arch users are responsible for maintaining their own system. Your system has - essentially - been unmaintained.

I can't say whether arch or ubuntu would be better for you, but if you chose arch, you'll need to take a more active role in understanding what's happening. For the present issue properly merging pacnew files in /etc/ will get you on your way to solving the problem - but I suspect there were other interventions that were missed and there will be many steps to catch up on.

Ideally in arch one should update regularly. Some people leave an arch install for quite a long time without updating. This makes updates a good bit of work, but things can usually be sorted out. Updating without paying attention to what is happening, however, will cause serious problems.

falconindy · 2012-06-17 13:23:08

You're missing the usr hook from your initramfs like so many other posters who didn't read the post_upgrade message from pacman.

gabx · 2012-06-24 14:31:34

falconindy wrote:

You're missing the usr hook from your initramfs like so many other posters who didn't read the post_upgrade message from pacman.

I do think you are right, as I had exactly same issue than OP with /usr on a separated partiton. The filesystem of OP is not mounted.
Could get rid of this issue when chrooting. Need to add usr shutdown in the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, then rebuild the image

$mkinitcpio -p linux

cesarramsan · 2012-07-01 06:54:19

Thank you! I adding 'usr' and 'shutdown' to my HOOKS fixed the problem for me.

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