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keen90

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From: Europe

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 106

[sort of SOLVED] keyboard stuck after first pacman call

Hi

I installed arch using a CD. The next thing i did was
pacman -Syu
Now I can't log in since the keyboard does not work any more. It does work in the grub menu I get before the login prompt. Is this a known problem. Are there any system files which might give me a hint what is going wrong. Would you suggest to simply redo the installation procedure?

Thanks in advance,
Keen

Last edited by keen90 (2011-08-06 11:14:38)

keen90

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From: Europe

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 106

Re: [sort of SOLVED] keyboard stuck after first pacman call

Ok never mind I will do another installation procedure since I also get a kernel panic every second time I boot.
I should commit at this point that I used a 2 year old cd for the installation. Maybe the jump was a bit to though for pacman...

lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

Re: [sort of SOLVED] keyboard stuck after first pacman call

Have you tried the fallback option from GRUB menu?
If you want to reinstall, maybe better luck with the test ISOs http://releng.archlinux.org/

Last edited by lolilolicon (2011-08-06 09:09:02)

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keen90

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From: Europe

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 106

Re: [sort of SOLVED] keyboard stuck after first pacman call

I did.
Same effect.

I am a bit confused anyway. The only reason I used this "old" cd was, the up-to-date iso I downloaded did not work as live cd. I got the error message:
arch linux unknown keyword in configuretion file: IPAPPEND
and then the bootup did stuck
Which seems to be a known bug. I do not understand why there is no newer release than the one from June 2010.
I did not check the MD5 sum so I will give it another try. And check it this time

keen90

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From: Europe

Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 106

Re: [sort of SOLVED] keyboard stuck after first pacman call

Ahh thanks for the link... there they are.

keen90

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Registered: 2010-04-07

Posts: 106

Re: [sort of SOLVED] keyboard stuck after first pacman call

I used the latest release from your link. The boot did stuck after the first line (the peter alvin thing, but without any further message) My dad tried the CD on a different computer. Also stuck. The we tried the iso in a virtual machine. It worked. We burned the iso to a standard cd (without rw) and this cd works fine on all machines now.