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Tetrix

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 17

Arch won't boot after the latest update

Hello!
    After updating the system I am unable to boot my Arch. I get the following error:
Starting init: /bin/init exists but couldn't execute it (error -13).
Kernel panic - not syncing: No working init found. Try passing init = option to kernel.

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,590

Re: Arch won't boot after the latest update

What does /bin/init look like?

Try booting from a live medium, mount your system partition (e.g. to /mnt) and run

ls -l /mnt/bin/init

Last edited by ayekat (2015-10-14 15:00:29)

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Xabre

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2009-03-19

Posts: 752

Re: Arch won't boot after the latest update

First thing that comes to my mind is that systemd-sysvcompat is not installed for some reason. Point it to the correct init by adding init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd in bootloader kernel options line.

Tetrix

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 17

Re: Arch won't boot after the latest update

First thing that comes to my mind is that systemd-sysvcompat is not installed for some reason. Point it to the correct init by adding init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd in bootloader kernel options line.

Now is says: Kernel panic not syncing Requested init /usr/lib/systemd/systemd failed (error -2)

Tetrix

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 17

Re: Arch won't boot after the latest update

What does /bin/init look like?

Try booting from a live medium, mount your system partition (e.g. to /mnt) and run

ls -l /mnt/bin/init

OK, I managed to mount it and by running the command I get
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root /mnt/bin/init -> ../lib/systemd/systemd

Last edited by Tetrix (2015-10-14 19:48:14)

ayekat

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 1,590

Re: Arch won't boot after the latest update

That looks right, so I'm at loss.

The only thing I've found on the web is people who've solved this issue by running mkinitcpio, but that's taken from posts that go back as far as 2006, so I'm not sure it works (but try it out, nevertheless, just to be sure).

I'm a little puzzled that systemd-sysvcompat wasn't installed in the first place, though... what are you doing on that system?

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,597

Re: Arch won't boot after the latest update

So for some reason, systemd is failing to run, which is very strange. Kernel problem? Filesystem corruption? Wrong architecture?

A search says that error 13 means permission problem. Is systemd not executable?

Last edited by Scimmia (2015-10-14 22:55:19)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Arch won't boot after the latest update

Are you using [testing]?
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 27467.html

Tetrix

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Registered: 2015-09-30

Posts: 17

Re: Arch won't boot after the latest update

When I updated it last time I saw few errors but I didn't really see what was about and I also didn't see what was updated because I was doing something else. Anyway, I reinstalled the system because I needed a functional computer in the moment. I will leave this thread open so if someone has the same problem can continue it. Anyway thank you guys for the help.