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deadrabbit

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Registered: 2008-04-26

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Can't boot in to multi user mode

After a reboot, Arch went blank before launching gdm - it wouldn't respond to C-A-Backspace or anything. So I booted in to single user mode, and changed the runlevel to 3 and rebooted. When I try to log in from the CLI, the computer hangs, and never prompts for a password. Does anyone know what might cause this, and how it can be fixed? Until then it fixed, I'm stuck with my damn iBook running YDL

Thanks!

deadrabbit

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Registered: 2008-04-26

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Re: Can't boot in to multi user mode

Another note - I've tried fsck on each partition from a live cd, and no errors come up. Does anyone have any ideas? I'd rather not reinstall arch from scratch if possible. Is there another area of the forum that would be a more appropriate place for this post?

Thanks

Jack B

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Re: Can't boot in to multi user mode

I don't know what might cause this, it's a bit over my head, have you looked in the log files? particularly errors.log and everything.log.

Beyond that, I don't really know.

Jack

Last edited by Jack B (2008-07-29 14:01:46)

deadrabbit

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Re: Can't boot in to multi user mode

Thanks for the reply - I've looked through my log files quite a bit, and I don't see any errors or anything unusual, although there's a good chance that I'd miss it since I'm not sure what I'm looking for.

Jack B

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Re: Can't boot in to multi user mode

You could lave the machine off for a while, start it, let it freeze, shutdown, wait some more, then post here everything with a relavent timestamp from the logs.  Assuming you can shutdown without messing up your filesystem that is - if you have to press the power button to turn off I wouldn't do too much of that.

Also, what did you do before the reboot? any upgrades?

Jack

PS: now going home, won't be back till tomorrow