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hellbike

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My system is dead after upgrade

I upgraded whole system and installed intel drivers (i have old Graphic card, 855 series i guess).
After reebot, higher resolution was present (so i think, that drivers are working fine - and this is upgrade fault).
Then, after usual booting stuff, whole screen goes black, with "_" mark in left-upper corner.

What can i do?

Last edited by hellbike (2009-06-28 10:36:29)

toad

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

How about booting a live CD and checking the logs?

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hellbike

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

where i can find logs?

toad

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

google is your friend - here the first two hits:

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-log- … ogs-files/
http://www.ghacks.net/2009/02/16/learni … log-files/

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hellbike

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

http://nopaste.org/p/a8UpR85nT - this is messages.log from past 2 days (yesterday i updated system, and today i launched it first time after update).

There is no boot.log in my log files.

Oh, and i my system dont launch x-server automaticlly.

Last edited by hellbike (2009-06-28 11:55:22)

litemotiv

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

looks like the same problem as reported here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74903

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hellbike

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

why there is file called kernel26.img in /boot/ ? i mean, why its not 2.6.28 or 2.6.30 ?

hellbike

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.29-ARCH/modules.dep: No such file or directory - this is error from yesterdat, after update.

Today, after i launched system - this error didn't occured.

arkham

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

why there is file called kernel26.img in /boot/ ? i mean, why its not 2.6.28 or 2.6.30 ?

Because in this way everytime you upgrade the kernel you don't have to change your menu.lst manually.

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hellbike

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

Make it clear for me - kernel is in the /boot/, and it loads modules from /lib/modules?

How does it know, which modules to load (i got both, 2.6.29 and 2.9.30

And how do i know which version of kernel i have, when it's name is just 26?

And i think that my problem isn't the same as in topic that link you gave, because my system dont try to load modules from 2.6.29 after boot (he tried yestertad, before "boot after update")

Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: Linux version 2.6.30-ARCH (root@LX-Laptop) (gcc version 4.4.0 20090526 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jun 19 21:25:17 UTC 2009
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: KERNEL supported cpus:
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: Intel GenuineIntel
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: AMD AuthenticAMD
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: NSC Geode by NSC
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: Cyrix CyrixInstead
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: Centaur CentaurHauls
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: Transmeta GenuineTMx86
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: Transmeta TransmetaCPU
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: UMC UMC UMC UMC
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000002dee0000 (usable)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000002dee0000 - 000000002deec000 (ACPI data)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000002deec000 - 000000002df00000 (ACPI NVS)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000002df00000 - 0000000030000000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: DMI present.
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: last_pfn = 0x2dee0 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: PAT not supported by CPU.
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: Scanning 1 areas for low memory corruption
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified physical RAM map:
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000002000 (usable)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified: 0000000000002000 - 0000000000006000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified: 0000000000006000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified: 00000000000ce000 - 00000000000d0000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified: 0000000000100000 - 000000002dee0000 (usable)
Jun 28 12:13:33 hellbike-laptop kernel: modified: 000000002dee0000 - 000000002deec000 (ACPI data)
Jun 28 1

- this is log from today.

Last edited by hellbike (2009-06-28 14:19:05)

sand_man

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Re: My system is dead after upgrade

chroot in and run "uname -a" to check the kernel version

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