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psathiya1987

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 11

Unable to login after system update

I recently installed arch in my lenova laptop. Installation went fine and I updated my system then. Finally I had a kernel 3.4.4-2 and rebooted.

After rebooting, I got the login screen (tty1) . I had not created an user yet. So had to login as root.

So When I enter the username as root and click enter , the password credential request is not getting loaded. After a space of 10 seconds, I am again redirected to login request.

I have never had this issue and I have been using arch for the past 8 months. Please advice

psathiya1987

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 11

Re: Unable to login after system update

I just noticed another post discussing the same issue. Please ignore my post.

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: Unable to login after system update

You should mark it as solved and say a few words about what you actually did to solve it, so that other people (including yourself sometimes) may find useful.

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karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Unable to login after system update

I just noticed another post discussing the same issue.

A link to the other thread would be useful.

psathiya1987

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Registered: 2012-02-26

Posts: 11

Re: Unable to login after system update

I am still stuck. The other thread that I mentioned was dicussing about adding hook to mkinitcpio because /usr was in a separate partition. That is not the case in my problem.

I rushed to close this thread before resolving my issue. the issue is still persisting. I could not login to the machine at all. And my partitions are as listed below

sda1 - /
sda5 - /home
sda6 - /opt
sda7 - /var/cache
sda8 - swapspace

Again, I couldnot login once after updating the system. I could login before. Please advice

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,152

Re: Unable to login after system update

Did you deal with any *.pacnew *.pacsave etc. files created during the upgrade? There was a change to the default /etc/pam.d/login, for example.

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