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Hello, I've been on Arch for over a year, but am not very technical with it. After a recent pacman update, my laptop's hardware sound buttons (volume up, down, and mute) no longer work, although sound can be changed in software. Also, commands like halt or reboot return [bash: halt: command not found] and here, even gui programs will not shutdown. I would like to learn how to fix issues such as these rather than having to reinstall every time I come across a problem. Thanks for any help.
Last edited by killgriff (2012-10-28 01:38:23)
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After a recent pacman update, my laptop's hardware sound buttons (volume up, down, and mute) no longer work
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32047 ?
What happens if you run /sbin/halt explicitly? Do you have that file?
What's the output of 'echo $PATH'?
Last edited by karol (2012-10-22 06:57:29)
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Thanks, didn't think of checking for bugs. Does anyone know when Gnome 3.6 will be out?
$ sudo /sbin/halt
sudo: /sbin/halt: command not found
$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin/core_perl
Last edited by killgriff (2012-10-22 07:02:12)
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The output of 'file /sbin/halt' please.
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The output of 'file /sbin/halt' please.
$ file /sbin/halt
/sbin/halt: ERROR: cannot open `/sbin/halt' (No such file or directory)
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Gnome 3.6 is already in [testing]. When will it come to [extra] I guess it depends when will the bugs like https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32152 be fixed.
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ls /sbin/
Display all 152 possibilities? (y or n)
agetty fsck.minix lvmdiskscan modprobe sysctl
badblocks fsck.msdos lvmdump mount.fuse telinit
blkid fsck.reiserfs lvmsadc nologin tune2fs
blockdev fsck.vfat lvmsar pam_tally udevadm
bootlogd fsck.xfs lvreduce pam_tally2 umount.udisks
cfdisk fsfreeze lvremove pam_timestamp_check unix_chkpwd
chcpu fstab-decode lvrename pccardctl unix_update
ctrlaltdel fstrim lvresize pivot_root vgcfgbackup
debugfs hwclock lvs pvchange vgcfgrestore
debugreiserfs init lvscan pvck vgchange
depmod ip mdadm pvcreate vgck
dhcpcd jfs_debugfs mdassemble pvdisplay vgconvert
dmeventd jfs_fsck mdmon pvmove vgcreate
dmsetup jfs_fscklog mkdosfs pvremove vgdisplay
dosfsck jfs_logdump mke2fs pvresize vgexport
dosfslabel jfs_mkfs mkfs pvs vgextend
dumpe2fs jfs_tune mkfs.bfs pvscan vgimport
e2fsck key.dns_resolver mkfs.cramfs raw vgimportclone
e2image killall5 mkfs.ext2 reiserfsck vgmerge
e2label ldconfig mkfs.ext3 reiserfstune vgmknodes
e2undo logsave mkfs.ext4 request-key vgreduce
fdisk losetup mkfs.ext4dev resize2fs vgremove
findfs lspcmcia mkfs.jfs resize_reiserfs vgrename
fsadm lvchange mkfs.minix runlevel vgs
fsck lvconvert mkfs.msdos sfdisk vgscan
fsck.cramfs lvcreate mkfs.reiserfs sln vgsplit
fsck.ext2 lvdisplay mkfs.vfat sulogin wipefs
fsck.ext3 lvextend mkfs.xfs swaplabel xfs_repair
fsck.ext4 lvm mkhomedir_helper swapoff
fsck.ext4dev lvmchange mkreiserfs swapon
fsck.jfs lvmconf mkswap switch_root
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If you're using systemd I think you should install systemd-sysvcompat.
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I'm already using sysvinit, should I replace it with systemd-sysvcompat?
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I'm already using sysvinit, should I replace it with systemd-sysvcompat?
No.
sysvinit is the old way, so you're still using it, not already :-)
sysvinit does provide halt and reboot https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core … nit/files/ so maybe you can try reinstalling it.
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Alright, a quick upgrade loaded all the missing commands, thanks a lot!
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Well, I'm back. Updating sysvinit does replace the commands, but after a reboot/halt,etc... they are gone again. Also, curl keeps uninstalling itself after every time I install a package from the AUR.
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