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commandlinekid

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Registered: 2015-08-12

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can't login after update logind not starting

Hello

I'm running 5.2.9-arch1-1-ARCH

I did two things this morning and now I can't login
1.) I removed all unnecessary packages (using the pacman command, I forget what it is)
2.) I did pacman Syyu and it upgraded "kernel stuff" I could tell.

Now when I boot I can't login and see at times the error that logind can't start.

I've tried booting to the LiveCD and running a myriad of things after mounting like mkinitcpio -P, and "-p linux" and pacman -linux and all kinds of stuff but it's not letting the "logind" service start.

I can even ssh to the box but again, I can't login.

If I put in a wrong-password, I get an error. If I put in the correct password, it just hangs

Also I'm running the OS on a USB-stick which has worked wonderfully for the past year until today.

Thank you.

seth

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Re: can't login after update logind not starting

pacman command, I forget what it is

pacman Syyu and it upgraded "kernel stuff"

"pacman -Syu", you obviously don't know what  the second "y" does (cause you used it here), so you have no reason to use it.

tried booting to the LiveCD … myriad of things … all kinds of stuff

First of all, we need more specific data, eg. your pacman log as well as:

sudo env LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ", 0 altered files"

(after! chrooting into the installed system - if you're root, you can skip "sudo env")

Also I'm running the OS on a USB-stick which has worked wonderfully for the past year until today.

This would make me worry A LOT!
USB keys are "dumb" NAND memory, there's no wear leveling, no reserve blocks, nothing. They are NOT like a (slow) SSD at all.
If you write a lot onto the key, it will eventually loose the ability to write new data (while reading existing data works fine, NAND characteristics) and you might have ended up w/ a bogus partial update…

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jasonwryan

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Re: can't login after update logind not starting

Moving to NC....

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