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#1 2010-01-12 13:17:58
- abcbucket
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[SOLVED]...Pls help ..........Freeze after latest udates
g'day all.
After last night's pacman -Syu (I think the main item was newer kernel), pc is freezing while boot.
I can see all my daemons starting one by one hal, wicd...etc. Last daemon in the rc.conf is "virtualbox" based on code I found here and elsewhere.
It was fine until I did the recent pacman updates. Normally virtualbox @u%ks after kernel upgrades, which works fine after redoing vbox.
This time it says starting daemon virtualbox and halts there.
This is what I tried: to put a "3" at the end of line in the grub menu edit mode, hoping to get a command line. But the bott process is not going that far.
Is there any way I can stop the virtualbox (or any) daemon from running during the boot ptrocess ?
cheers
Last edited by abcbucket (2010-01-13 22:55:50)
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#2 2010-01-12 13:39:35
- idx
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Re: [SOLVED]...Pls help ..........Freeze after latest udates
Sure, just add a 1 at the end of the grub line instead of the 3 you tried, it will boot to single user mode & prompt for root password for maintenance -- which should allow you to edit rc.conf.
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#3 2010-01-12 13:55:46
- abcbucket
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Re: [SOLVED]...Pls help ..........Freeze after latest udates
idx, thanks for the quick reply.
I tried your suggestion.
It still says
...
...
entering run level 5:
starting this
starting that
...
starting virtualbox
FREEZE...
I must be doing something wrong
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#4 2010-01-12 13:57:48
- sHyLoCk
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#5 2010-01-12 14:24:49
- perbh
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Re: [SOLVED]...Pls help ..........Freeze after latest udates
err...Put the arch / any Live CD/DVD. Boot, mount, chroot, edit , save, unmount, exit, reboot, enjoy.
*lol*
Hmmmmm ...
bash# unmount
Command not found
bash# enjoy
Command not found
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#6 2010-01-13 22:52:24
- abcbucket
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Re: [SOLVED]...Pls help ..........Freeze after latest udates
ur a champ sHyLoCk,
that worked a treat. I downloaded rescuecd adn managed to update rc.conf to stop the virtualbox daemon.
thanks again.
How do you put [SOLVED] in the subject line ?
[edit]......found it
Last edited by abcbucket (2010-01-13 22:56:17)
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