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#1 2014-12-25 05:09:44
- henrythemouse
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[SOLVED] upgrade using Octopi system will not boot into DM
I did a system upgrade using Octopi late last night. I use Enlightenment and Gnome. After the upgrade the desktop froze (E), so I switched to a vt and rebooted. That failed to work, so I forced power off using the power button and went to bed. The next day I started up the laptop (lenovo t430) but the boot never got to gdm login. I stops with the line: "[ OK ] Started Accounts Service". Using htop I see that gdm is running.
Then I opened a vt and tried to do another upgrade (pacman -Syu), but that failed with an error message stating that a libgpgme was too short. I took a look and found that both libgpgme files were empty (0 bytes). I went to my pacman cache and found the packages and use them to copy over the lib files. Pacman then worked. But booting still did not.
All this made me curious, so I checked my /usr/lib dir and found 54 lib files empty. I'm certainly no system expert, but this doesn't seem like a good sign to me. When ldconfig is run a very long list of empty libs is printed to the screen.
At any rate, I'm wonder if anyone else ran into this issue and (of course) if anyone has a solution for this? I really don't want to go through each empty lib and copy the files by hand if I can avoid it.
Any help would be very appreciated.
TIA
Gary
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#2 2014-12-25 05:20:42
- jasonwryan
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Re: [SOLVED] upgrade using Octopi system will not boot into DM
Please edit your title to reflect the fact that Octopi borked your system.
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#3 2014-12-25 18:43:51
- henrythemouse
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Re: [SOLVED] upgrade using Octopi system will not boot into DM
Please edit your title to reflect the fact that Octopi borked your system.
Thank you for the link, not to mention the quick reply.
The packages python-packagekit and packagekit had to be removed before I could start the installation as they had a dependency on a older version of pacman. My mirrors file caused a good deal of packages to not be downloaded, so that had to be changed. Afterwards everything went well. This experience has shown me the strength of the Arch package system, it's really an amazing system.
I tried the recommended command from the above link but kept getting numerous error messages stating that such and such file already existed on the filesystem. Which was true enough, so I added the --force parameter and that did the trick.
This is the command I used to get running again:
pacman -S $(pacman -Qnq) --force
Problem solved. Except I have to wonder how it was caused in the first place. If it was caused by using Octopi, I guess I should run that by the author. And I'll have to either go back to using the command line or try another gui.
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