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markp1989

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Registered: 2008-10-05

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update broke x, again

today i just updated my eee pc, which has left me without functioning xserver .

if i try to startx then i get an error saying

"keyboard initilization failed . this could be a missing or incorrect setup of xkeyboard-config"

recently (last 6 months or so), every update i have done has broke something.

any way to fix this,

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markp1989

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Registered: 2008-10-05

Posts: 431

Re: update broke x, again

i tried to reinstall xkeyboard-config

after pacman installs the files i get an error

"/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libicuio.so.42 is not an elf file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start

/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libicuio.so. is not an elf file - it has the wrong  magic bytes at the start"

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Desktop: E8400@4ghz - DFI Lanparty JR P45-T2RS - 4gb ddr2 800 - 30gb OCZ Vertex - Geforce 8800 GTS - 2*19" LCD
Server/Media Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX I-E - E5200 - 4gb Ram - 2* ecogreen F2 1.5tb - 1* wd green 500gb - PicoPSU 150xt - rtorrent - xbmc - ipazzport remote - 42" LCD

markp1989

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Registered: 2008-10-05

Posts: 431

Re: update broke x, again

i found out what happend, part way through the update, i ran out of space in the root partition. so i think i have a bunch of 0byte files on my hard drive, how can i fix this?

thanks Markp1989

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Desktop: E8400@4ghz - DFI Lanparty JR P45-T2RS - 4gb ddr2 800 - 30gb OCZ Vertex - Geforce 8800 GTS - 2*19" LCD
Server/Media Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX I-E - E5200 - 4gb Ram - 2* ecogreen F2 1.5tb - 1* wd green 500gb - PicoPSU 150xt - rtorrent - xbmc - ipazzport remote - 42" LCD

tavianator

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From: Waterloo, ON, Canada

Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: update broke x, again

Clear some space, look in /var/log/pacman.log to see what packages were updated, and pacman -Sf all of them.

markp1989

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Registered: 2008-10-05

Posts: 431

Re: update broke x, again

thats not good, after installing arch on my eee i toook some advice from eeeuser and move /var/log to tmpfs to reduce writes to the ssd, so after rebootign the log is long gone.

oh well lesson learned, gues i will have to do a reinstall llool

i still cant belive that pacman didnt error out, or give me an update failed mesage or somthing, i dont know why it just made a bunch of lib files 0bytes in size

Last edited by markp1989 (2009-11-28 12:41:51)

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Re: update broke x, again

The point of swapping out /var stuff to RAM is to minimise writes indeed, but you should put a script in place that saves the contents of /var somewhere before shutting down and have it unpacked to RAM during boot.

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