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invinoveritas

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can't load partition anymore

I have just done some upgrades and for some reason another partition does not show up on desktop anymore... I am a newbie and arch was installed by a friend of mine... i don't remember exactly how he did it... anyway there is this other NTFS partition (there were only documents in there) and now I can't see it anymore... can somebody help me?? thanks

wonder

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Re: can't load partition anymore

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11675

the partition is there. you only need to mount it manualy until this is fixed

Last edited by wonder (2008-10-08 08:41:25)

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invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

thanks for the prompt reply... if i may ask.. how do you downgrade?? thanks

AD28

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Re: can't load partition anymore

Older versions are cached in /var/cache/pacman/pkg.  If you want to downgrade the 64-bit package blah to blah-0.3, it would go something like this:

Remove blah:

 # pacman -R blah

Install blah-0.3:

/var/cache/pacman/pkg# pacman -U blah-0.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Last edited by AD28 (2008-10-08 09:56:47)

invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

thank you so much

invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

omg i made a mess... i tried to do what the topic wonder suggested told me to do and now when i start the computer it stops at login@myhost... i do the login with my user and then i do not know what to do to get back in there... i don't know any command... how can i get in there? thank you so much sorry i'm such a noob...

AD28

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Re: can't load partition anymore

I don't quite understand what you mean.. can you explain more?

invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

ok so i start up the computer, the grub menu shows up and i choose archlinux. Then arch starts loading many things (of which i do not have any idea) then it clears the page and there is only this line:
my host login:

so i login with my name jacopo and password and it changes to:
[jacopo@myhost]$:

now i don't know what type of command i have 2 give or anything like it...

when it worked it used 2 do the login by itself ( it was jacopo@secco:) and then the screen where i had 2 choose the user would pop and so on...

AD28

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Re: can't load partition anymore

What happens when you use the command startx?

invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

ok so startx makes the screen blank and then 3 shells appear (2 of them with xterm) and a clock on the right. I think GNOME doesn't load?? am i wrong?

AD28

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Re: can't load partition anymore

Which packages did you remove earlier?  Look at the end of /var/log/pacman.log and reinstall what you removed.

invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

if i do sudo pacman -Syu would that work 2?

AD28

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Re: can't load partition anymore

That would probably reinstall everything you removed as dependencies, so it would probably work.

invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

ok so i looked at the pacman log and everything i had removed i then installed an earlier version (all the libraries are the ones listed on the topic wonder had suggested earlier on this thread). I tried to do the sudo pacman -Syu but it fails...

invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

is there a way to do a rollback??

Last edited by invinoveritas (2008-10-08 12:54:17)

AD28

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Re: can't load partition anymore

I don't know what else to tell you, so hopefully someone else knows.

SkonesMickLoud

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Registered: 2008-09-20

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Re: can't load partition anymore

After you log in type:

nano ~/.xinitrc

Make sure that:

exec gnome-session

is there and isn't commented out with a #.  It has to be the only thing uncommented, if anything else is (i.e xterm) comment it out.  If it's not there, add it.

Then do:

startx

Last edited by SkonesMickLoud (2008-10-08 13:48:46)

lldmer

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Re: can't load partition anymore

Which packages have you tried downgrading?
And could you post the output of ifconfig to see if you have a network connection for pacman?

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invinoveritas

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Re: can't load partition anymore

ok so i got in with the exec gnome-session but i can't do pretty much anything. I don't have the partition mounted and i don't have the connection to internet so I can't post ifconfig nor pacman log. how should i proceed now? All the programs seem to be still there.