PLZ HELP!! Strange issue after pacman -Syu

RDDO · 2008-03-04 05:34:40

after running pacman -Syu and updating all, my system simply doesn't recognize any modules, and when I try to load them by modprobe <modu name> I receive a FATAL msg, even the hostname is set to (none) after reboot, I cant even get into menuconfig and now after some commands, the hdd starts reading (I don't know what) like crazy, and the system go all slow, I have no idea of what went wrong

tigrmesh · 2008-03-04 06:06:57

Many configuration files have changed.

From the wiki, "During a package upgrade pacman may create a file with a .pacnew extension rather than overwrite the existing file in the filesystem". Alternatively, pacman may replace the existing file & rename the file with a .pacsave extension.

Do a

ls -l /etc/*pac*

and merge your changes with the new versions.

fwojciec · 2008-03-04 06:27:13

RDDO wrote:

after running pacman -Syu and updating all, my system simply doesn't recognize any modules, and when I try to load them by modprobe <modu name> I receive a FATAL msg, even the hostname is set to (none) after reboot, I cant even get into menuconfig and now after some commands, the hdd starts reading (I don't know what) like crazy, and the system go all slow, I have no idea of what went wrong

menuconfig? are you using a custom compiled kernel? perhaps this is the source of your problems?

RDDO · 2008-03-04 06:28:37

"merge your changes with the new versions"

how exactly do I make that?? should I just rename the .pacsave (IE: rc.conf.pacsave to rc.conf) or need some merge command?? thx for posting, I haven't even noticed the creation of .pacsaves, well I'm still trying to find where you saw this "During a package upgrade..."

RDDO · 2008-03-04 06:32:45

fwojciec wrote:

menuconfig? are you using a custom compiled kernel? perhaps this is the source of your problems?

No, I installed using CORE.iso (provided by Get Arch link) but I tried make menuconfig before, to see if my wireless card had a module needed in the kernel config, I guess the source of problems are those .pacsave files

fwojciec · 2008-03-04 06:37:30

RDDO wrote:

guess the source of problems are those .pacsave files

I very much doubt it -- it is possible that they would make an application run incorrectly or not run, but they wouldn't destabilize the system like what you're describing.

RDDO · 2008-03-04 07:20:51

most strange, is that lots of files are read-only file system now, I can't change rc.conf neither rc.conf.pacsave
and by looking at pacman.log I saw that the kernel was upgraded Kernel26 (2.6.24.1-2 -> 2.6.24.3-1) I can't even manage to copy the output now, the situation is so chaotic...

Last edited by RDDO (2008-03-04 07:48:59)

fwojciec · 2008-03-04 14:09:27

Are you sure there are no problems with your partitions/hd? If that were the case it is likely that root would be mounted as read only for to avoid data corruption and to enable you to try and fix the issue with fsck -- you would be getting a big fat warning on boot if that were the case, though.

tigrmesh · 2008-03-04 16:20:38

Here's the / line from my /etc/mtab. What's in yours?

/dev/sda8 / ext3 rw 0 0

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PLZ HELP!! Strange issue after pacman -Syu

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