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dogfin

Member

From: WA, USA

Registered: 2006-04-04

Posts: 10

/etc/rc.multi: cannot execute binary file

The whole story.  My last pacman -Syu was about two days ago, and my kernel and nvidia drivers are in my hold list, not to be upgraded.  Last night I start an -Syu with just simple items in the list, openexr, gcj, koffice, and initscripts 0.8-3, vim, nothing extrodinary. While installing Koffice, I get a stream of errors about not being able to read or write to files, and no commands work anymore, as if the filesystem is gone.

After reboot I get as far as this:
INIT: version 2.86 booting
/etc/rc.sysinit: /etc/rc.sysinit: cannot execute binary file
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
/etc/rc.multi: /etc/rc.multi: cannot execute binary file
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabling for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

(This was typed out by running between rooms, please forgive any spelling errors.)  So does anybody have a clue?  I'm at a loss, and I don't know if the latest arch live supports XFS file systems, making a backup and reinstall harder.  Thanks for any help.

Ryan -

Romashka

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: /etc/rc.multi: cannot execute binary file

I think 0.8 preview ISOs support XFS. Try to repair fs.

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dogfin

Member

From: WA, USA

Registered: 2006-04-04

Posts: 10

Re: /etc/rc.multi: cannot execute binary file

First off, sorry about the long time before an update, its bad form for sure. 

Basically I had discovered that several of my rc.local .multi and so on, were binary files flagged as executable.  Then I read Romashka's post and found about 10 pages worth of errors on my drive.  So I have now reinstalled using the new 0.8 CD.  All's well so far now (he said hoping not to jynx it.)  Later.

Ryan -