arch hangs at INIT after upgrade

Trevorofmolino · 2009-02-28 01:48:30

Installed arch and was putting in packages to get back to full system after wiping HDD problem. system boots and hangs at
INIT: v2.86 booting
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.sysinit"
INIT: entering runlevel : 3
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.multi"

rebooted with the install disk and checked the vat/log/pacman.log I was installing ABS and the following happened after abs was installed
warning etc/rc.local.shutdown changed to /etc/rc.local.shutdown.pacman
warning etc/rc.local changed to /etc/rc.local.pacman
warning etc/inittab changed to /etc/inittab.pacman
warning etc/profile changed to /etc/profile.pacman
warning removed initscripts

I mounted root and checked etc and found the ones changed to .pacman but could not find /etc/rc.sysinit and /etc/rc.multi or /etc/single
So my guess is that I have to get initscripts back and rc.sysinit and rc.multi but where did they go? And How do I pacman -S (whatever initscripts)from a boot system

FrozenFox · 2009-02-28 05:28:47

From a live or other environment, you can use 'chroot' to change to the mounted arch root partition and use pacman -S (or -U, I don't know if it will pick up the net correctly) to install the package 'initscripts'. Should be good to go after that.

Last edited by FrozenFox (2009-02-28 05:31:20)

Trevorofmolino · 2009-02-28 12:31:02

Haven't done a chroot before, maybe I did it wrong
I booted arch install disk and ar boot did arch root=/dev/sdb3 and it goes to the same thing where it gets to init and cannot find /etc/rc.sysinit or /etc/rc.multi
if I doa boot to arch and I did
mkdir /my
mount -t auto /dev/sdb3 /my
mount -t proc proc /my/proc
mount -t sysfs sys /my/sys
mount -o bind /dev /my/dev
chroot /my /bin/bash
I get root@none then I checked with pacman -Sy and got all the mirrors not working
so I tried ping -c 3 www.google.com and got host unknown.

markp1989 · 2009-02-28 13:53:57

i had the same problem, i had just done a fresh install, when i upgraded it removed the init scripts package, because it was a fresh install i didnt bother fixing it, and just did a reinstall

Arch Linux

#1 2009-02-28 01:48:30

arch hangs at INIT after upgrade

#2 2009-02-28 05:28:47

Re: arch hangs at INIT after upgrade

#3 2009-02-28 12:31:02

Re: arch hangs at INIT after upgrade

#4 2009-02-28 13:53:57

Re: arch hangs at INIT after upgrade

Board footer