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I am not sure what I actually did here but I started up my computer last night and it said cannot start my rc.sysinit which from what I have read it what goes thru your initscripts which is a big deal. I have tried to chroot into my system to run pacman -S initscripts but I get a cannot run /bin/bash and am not sure how to fix this.
I am a medium linux user which means I can figure a few things but this kind of stuff is over my head right now.
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Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2010-01-18 00:50:42)
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you can try to use the rc.sysinit from here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64282
if it works, then after proper boot you can download the initscripts package.
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Just tried that and I get this:
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.sysinit"
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
INIT: cannot execute "/etc/rc.multi"
INIT: cannot execute "/bin/sh"
(this part just repeats until it goes to)
INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "c2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
Hope this helps.
pink
Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2010-01-18 01:05:17)
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Seems like your system is more screwed up than you think if it can't execute bash. Rather than chroot, you can do "pacman --root /mnt/wherever -S initscripts" from a livecd. You may have to reinstall bash as well.
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Something similar to this cropped up around here a while back...
If you updated bash to 4.x or readline to 6.x without updating the other, you need to do them both.
Last edited by Peasantoid (2010-01-18 02:46:50)
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Just to clarify that I can do a pacman --root /mnt/arch/ -S initscripts and do a pacman --root /mnt/arch -S bash? I would also imagine I would need the core disc for this.
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Just to clarify that I can do a pacman --root /mnt/arch/ -S initscripts and do a pacman --root /mnt/arch -S bash? I would also imagine I would need the core disc for this.
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Before you do anything, I suggest running `pacman --root /mnt/arch -Q bash readline` and posting up the output. (this assumes your Arch install is mounted at /mnt/arch, obviously)
If you have internet access, you don't need the core disc.
As for actually installing the packages, I imagine you can just download them (archlinux.org/packages) and then `pacman --root /mnt/arch -U ...`, if the usual `-S ...` doesn't work.
Last edited by Peasantoid (2010-01-18 02:50:59)
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bash 4.0.035-1
readline 6.0.004-1
so this sounds like a problem right now.
EDIT: tried to install bash and readline but they are both up to date from the core CD, I do not have a internet connection to the laptop at the moment.
pink
Last edited by Mr Pink57 (2010-01-18 03:05:52)
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Okay, so the bash/readline version mismatch does not appear to be the problem. This is where my knowledge stops being helpful.
*leaves*
Last edited by Peasantoid (2010-01-18 03:42:55)
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well if you can't run /bin/bash at all then either it doesn't exist or it's not executable. try ls -l /mnt/point/bin/bash from a liveCD or whatever (replace /mnt/point with the mount point of your hard drive)
"You can watch for your administrator to install the latest kernel with watch uname -r" - From the watch man page
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