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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

mkinitcpio command doesn't finish

Just did a pacman there and the /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.23-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img command
doesn't finish: it takes forever to do the :: Parsing hook [autodetect] part. So I killed pacman and re-did pacman -Syu.
It finished this time. And I tried the command again on its own - the problem is still there.

anybody else seen this? I'm afaid to do a reboot now.....

gdavid

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Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 22

Re: mkinitcpio command doesn't finish

My upgrade to mkinitcpio 0.5.17-1 completed without a hitch.  Now the system hangs when I reboot.  Booting the fallback image works ok.
I suspect there is something in my /etc/rc.conf that the new mkinitcpio doesn't like.  I haven't figured out what yet.

UPDATE:  When I removed "@alsa" from the DAEMONS= line of my /etc/rc.conf file, the machine boots the default image just fine.  The funny thing is sound still works even without the alsa daemon.
I hope this steers you in a useful direction.

Last edited by gdavid (2007-11-23 05:09:22)

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: mkinitcpio command doesn't finish

Well, neither default or fallback worked for me. I had to boot with an Arch CD and chroot into the system and then downgrade my kernel to boot, only into fallback though..... Now trying to get default working again....

lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 386

Re: mkinitcpio command doesn't finish

Upgrade kernel again and this time it worked..... Strange. Anywasy, as long as I don't need to re-install the whole thing, I don't really mind.