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#1 2010-01-15 18:04:44

kYd
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Registered: 2009-01-20
Posts: 78

Kernel has fubard my system.

Hi,

Last month I upgraded to the latest kernel, but it caused alot of problems so I downgraded.
I tried it again just and I'm getting similar errors.

Once I reboot, I can't get X to run (error is similar to can't find module i915, I've tried modprobing it, and an error involving agpgart)
If I use the VESA driver, I can run X but I have no keyboard or mouse.
Plus doing 'iwconfig' only shows my loopback device.

Also, whilst rebooting I see a quick error saying 'cannot find /proc/usb'

Any ideas? I've tried to downgrade again but to no avail.

[NC10, Intel GMA950]

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#2 2010-01-15 19:16:44

perbh
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From: Republic of Texas
Registered: 2005-03-04
Posts: 765

Re: Kernel has fubard my system.

so - just take it slowly and one thing at a time
1) but into level 3(ie no X)
- check for any error messages (dmesg?)
- does the system work properly?
- if yes - then run 'startx'

etc etc etc - it is not much point telling us "help, this doesn't work" - you need to give us a lot more .. (logfiles, lspci, etc)
In the end - instead of just racing along with upgrade/downgrade - try to figure out what's happening - one problem at a time.
If others do not report problem with upgrading - then it's _not_ the new kernel that's at fault ...

In other words - do try to do at least a minimum of detective work on your own - then come back and tell us what you have and what didn't work (and no - just downgrading/upgrading is not detective work)

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#3 2010-01-15 19:23:17

apollokk
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From: Please delete me!
Registered: 2009-03-23
Posts: 157
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Re: Kernel has fubard my system.

Make sure you have the first French mirror enabled, and the do:

pacman -Syy
pacman -Suu
pacman -S kernel26 kernel26-firmware kernel26-headers
pacman -S xf86-video-intel

Probably, this should solve your problems.

*If you still can't start it, within a terminal do:

pacman -S xf86-video-intel

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smile


/me wants you to detele this account... please delete it.

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#4 2010-01-17 00:27:04

kYd
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Registered: 2009-01-20
Posts: 78

Re: Kernel has fubard my system.

Sorry I couldn't provide any log files, perbh, I was using my phone to post as I had no Internet on this computer.

I've managed to solve the problem, well not really solve it, by downgrading the Kernel to 2.6.31.6-1.
I believe this may be to do with my partitioning and encryption set up; I never had any problems before using encryption when upgrading Kernels.

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