Cannot login to arch - no enter password prompt

qaswed · 2009-08-15 14:16:08

Hi,

I recently upgraded system but i cannot login to arch.
I can enter username but after pressing enter nothing happens, no enter password prompt.

Any ideas
Help!!

loafer · 2009-08-15 17:08:15

How do you login? E.g. from GDM or straight from a console?

qaswed · 2009-08-15 18:21:20

Straight from a console, after that I start gdm.

loafer · 2009-08-15 18:29:59

Try switching to another TTY and see if that helps. Several people have been reporting similar problems, but only on tty1. It happens to me today on a new 64 bit install.

qaswed · 2009-08-15 18:36:36

Hi,

I just tried that, it's the same thing on all other ttys.

loafer · 2009-08-15 19:36:20

When you updated did the update include the inittab changes? Maybe it's related to that. You should be able to boot from a live CD, chroot into your system and look at pacman.log and see what was updated.

djszapi · 2009-08-15 21:55:04

And you can try from slim/kdm/etc.. too, maybe i'm wrong.

loafer · 2009-08-15 23:26:32

@djszapi, the OP can't logon, how can he boot from "slim/kdm/etc"?

djszapi · 2009-08-16 07:24:20

As i understand qaswed tried to login from console, maybe from gdm. What happens if he tried to login from other dm, e.g. if those are taken into the daemon section of /etc/rc.conf

qaswed · 2009-08-16 09:53:08

Hi,

I login from text console, no graphics consoles, but it just allow me to enter username,
as i press enter it just pass me to new line, theres no enter password prompt,
tried to reinstall initscripts, bash, readline, nothing.

tomk · 2009-08-16 12:38:32

You need to read loafer's post again, and do something about it this time.

qaswed · 2009-08-16 13:46:11

Hi,

I couldn't wait for solution, did reinstall and it's ok now, thanks anyway.

archilopa · 2012-07-12 21:52:17

Hi,

I have the same problem since last update. Went throught pacman.log but didn't find anything unusual.
Any ideas what is causing this and how to fix this?

EDIT: just realised how old this post is.. hope someone will notice it..

EDIT 2: ok, for anyone searching, i managed to fix it by reinstalling util-linux which somehow was missing some files.

Last edited by archilopa (2012-07-12 22:18:29)

jasonwryan · 2012-07-13 00:25:36

Closing as it is no longer relevant...

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