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tomzooi

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Registered: 2010-05-01

Posts: 26

[Solved]System freeze after reboot after upgrade

Hi,

At first I encountered the problem that "loading udev uevents" took forever, so I loaded a live cd and upgraded everything. Since then, my computer does boot and doesn't hang at loading udev uevents, but it now freezes when it shows a login field after booting. The keyboard doesn't do anything, and the screen just keeps frozen like a popsicle. I wanted to downgrade my nvidia and kernel version, but when I try to downgrade my nvidia version it states that My kernel version is too high, and when I try to downgrade that, My nvidia version is too high, seemed like an impossible loop to me.

Ow, and between booting I can see a lot of errors starting daemons and mounting the systems as well, but as I can't boot it's quiet hard to look them up (if I knew where to look, but I don't because I'm kind of a newbie) and post them here.

I've been thinking about installing arch all over again, but it seems to mee that I then have to lose all the installed programs, daemons and configurations which took me over weeks to create and make work, so any other option would be very helpfull.

Tom

Last edited by tomzooi (2012-04-21 15:29:36)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [Solved]System freeze after reboot after upgrade

Post your settings, rc.conf etc. Are you using [testing]? Maybe just your kdb / mouse isn't recognized. Do you boot straight to X? Some details about your setup (graphic card etc.) would be helpful.

> I've been thinking about installing arch all over again, but it seems to mee that I then have to lose
> all the installed programs, daemons and configurations which took me over weeks to create and make work,
> so any other option would be very helpfull.
Use your backup.

tomzooi

Member

Registered: 2010-05-01

Posts: 26

Re: [Solved]System freeze after reboot after upgrade

rc.conf :

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs @crond hal slim fam cups @sshd @mpd @alsa @samba mysqld httpd @transmissiond @xinetd)
I use an nvidia card, I boot to x using slim

I currently can boot again normally, loging and use the command prompt (thank god), also the daemons are all running, except for slim. When I start slim in the terminal I get the error:

slim: Stale lockfile found, removing it

Somehow I managed to fix this by removing and reïnstalling the kernel, but slim isn't running yet.

tomzooi

Member

Registered: 2010-05-01

Posts: 26

Re: [Solved]System freeze after reboot after upgrade

woaha, victory, reïnstalled the nvidia package and the thing works, now let's see if I can install and run rdesktop, the task I was running 5 hours ago, until the reboot failed...