Modules failing to load, no daemons in rc.conf loading, pacman errors

spo11 · 2011-05-29 02:55:02

I updated my system today, and after rebooting, I found that none of the modules were auto-loading, and none of the daemons I specified in my rc.conf are starting. Even starting them manually leads to failure. My rc.conf hasn't changed prior to system update. I can't see anything in the pacman log that indicates a major error that would render my system virtually unusable.

I figured that the problem might be related to the fact that the /var partition was not mounting. So I tried mounting it manually using the "mount /dev/sda2" command, and the output was "reiserfs filesystem type unknown". This also occurs when I use "mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda2".

It definitely was mounting fine before, so I'm not sure why this is happening.

I might mention also that pacman segfaults when I try running it, so my entire system at this point is unusable. I'm not sure what to do and I'm reluctant to re-install as I just

This has happened before and has lead to my having to reinstall, but I can't figure out a solution.

spo11 · 2011-06-09 01:18:03

I realize it's more than a week since I posted this, but I thought I'd update so that someone who runs into the same problem will have something to be aided by.

I isolated the problem as being related to my /var partition not being mounted. Somehow, during the system update, the updated modules were not being extracted (they were still in .gz format in /lib/; the OS looks for *.ko files, so that was the problem), so I extracted the module for ext3 (fs type of my /var partition), then loaded the ext3 module and manually mounted /var.

Then I re-installed the kernel manually using the pkg.tar.xz in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ because the kernel libs were also not extracted (which had lead to X not starting, etc).

I am not still entirely sure why the kernel did not upgrade correctly/fully, as the pacman logs didn't indicate that there were any problems. Hope this helps someone.

falconindy · 2011-06-09 02:26:34

Kernel modules are intentionally gzip'd. modprobe in Arch has supported this for a few months now.

havok · 2011-06-10 18:26:03

whops, reply instead of post.

Last edited by havok (2011-06-10 18:26:48)

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#1 2011-05-29 02:55:02

Modules failing to load, no daemons in rc.conf loading, pacman errors

#2 2011-06-09 01:18:03

Re: Modules failing to load, no daemons in rc.conf loading, pacman errors

#3 2011-06-09 02:26:34

Re: Modules failing to load, no daemons in rc.conf loading, pacman errors

#4 2011-06-10 18:26:03

Re: Modules failing to load, no daemons in rc.conf loading, pacman errors

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