[solved] kernel26 update screwed up my sytem. Please help!

_domk · 2008-08-12 10:00:32

Hi,

Today when I booted my system, I could no longer use the mouse. KDE4 loads fine so I thought I can resolve the issue from there, but then I realized, that networking doesn`t work either. I then remembered, that in yesterdays pacman -Syu a new kernel26 was installed.

/etc/rc.d/network restart just gives me an error.

I have heard, that it isn't possible to downgrade packages.

I have no Idea How I can bring back my system to be usable. With both mouse and network missing, it's hard for me to start looking for things.

During startup I get errors concerning module loading

Would compiling the kernel26 package myself help?

Any help apreciated!

Dominik

Last edited by _domk (2008-08-12 12:05:10)

_domk · 2008-08-12 11:47:22

ok, I managed to get the system going again.

just in case anybody has a similar problem, here is what I did:

- boot another linux system
- chroot into my broken Arch system
- pacman -R gspcav1 (because that depended on the newer kernel - module for webcam)
- cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
- pacman -U kernel26-2.6.25.11-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz
- pacman -U gspcav1-1.00.20-6-i686.pkg.tar.gz
- reboot the system into Arch

works fine now.

I just wonder, how I should handle pacman -Syu now. Anybody any hints?
is it possible to tell pacman not to update the kernel?
and if so, will I get dependency problems?

Dominik

Garns · 2008-08-12 12:16:35

man pacman.conf wrote:

IgnorePkg = package ...
Instructs pacman to ignore any upgrades for this package when performing a --sysupgrade.

But you shouldn't freeze you kernel at 2.6.25 forever.

_domk · 2008-08-12 12:41:50

thank you for the hint!

ravster · 2008-08-12 13:32:56

Also, you should file a bug report, preferably with all relevant error messages that you came across. I think it would be best to have one bug report, since you seem to indicate that the keyboard and mouse problem is somehow related to the webcam module problem.

_domk · 2008-08-12 15:57:24

Which logs could be interesting for such a bug?

I didn't try out the webcam, maybe it would have worked. KDE4 is not really such a charm yet, when you don't have a mouse to work with. Networking didn't work though, which is why I did not try solving problems from whithin the broken system.

Also, I'm not to keen of messing everything up again to see some errors floating by. Any suggestions what should go into a bugreport?

Before I opened this thread I checked whether anybody else had a similar problem. Even though nobody had, there seem to be more people having problems with the latest kernel update.

trx · 2008-08-19 14:39:10

same problem over here.
after the update my networking stopped working (I use wicd but the usual networkd also gives me an error!)
so I downgraded the kernel to get it going at least temporary.
so are there any news?

thanks

mrunion · 2008-08-19 16:58:29

Is it anything like this: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10984

trx · 2008-08-19 18:45:42

No, not really. I use cable networking.
but thanks for the answer!

trx · 2008-08-22 17:32:45

So I found a solution for me: i'm on a dell vostro 1510 machine with a realtek ethernet chip and I was using the realtek r8168 driver, which I had to compile by hand. with the newest kernel, the r8168 driver has become obsolete in favor of the r8169 driver included in archlinux. so i simply had to switch modules to get it working again.

greets

Last edited by trx (2008-08-22 17:33:16)

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