[arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-15 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, I did a complete upgrade following the instructions w.r.t. the /lib symlink, and indeed ended up with pacman -Su saying 'nothing to do' and /lib being a symlink. On rebooting I get the login prompt on tty1..6, but after entering a login nothing happens (no passwd prompt) and after a

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-15 Thread Dave Morgan
On 15/07/12 at 08:35P, Fons Adriaensen wrote: Hello all, I did a complete upgrade following the instructions w.r.t. the /lib symlink, and indeed ended up with pacman -Su saying 'nothing to do' and /lib being a symlink. On rebooting I get the login prompt on tty1..6, but after entering a

Re: [arch-general] Failed to compile Emacs

2012-07-15 Thread Diep Pham Van
After apply this patch, I get: cd /home/favadi/abs/emacs/src/emacs-24.1 automake --gnu -a -c lib/Makefile configure.in:29: error: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.12.2, configure.in:29: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.in:29: comes from Automake 1.11.1. You should

Re: [arch-general] Upgraded kmod, but --ignored linux glibc, modules still in /lib - can I reboot safely?

2012-07-15 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:35:58 -0500 schrieb David C. Rankin drankina...@suddenlinkmail.com: Tom, All, I see the glibc /lib move is out of testing. I updated with --ignore linux,glibc and received an install warning from kmod stating: == Kernel modules are now only read from

Re: [arch-general] Upgraded kmod, but --ignored linux glibc, modules still in /lib - can I reboot safely?

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:35:58AM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: Tom, All, I see the glibc /lib move is out of testing. I updated with --ignore linux,glibc and received an install warning from kmod stating: == Kernel modules are now only read from /usr/lib/modules... My modules are

Re: [arch-general] Upgraded kmod, but --ignored linux glibc, modules still in /lib - can I reboot safely?

2012-07-15 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/15/12 08:07, Leonid Isaev wrote: The kernel is not new, but the same with a changed location of the modules. Why would you ever want to mask linux? Those of us who are running Linodes may well all share this issue, because Linode supplies

Re: [arch-general] Upgraded kmod, but --ignored linux glibc, modules still in /lib - can I reboot safely?

2012-07-15 Thread Ariel Popper
On 7/15/2012 3:55 PM, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/15/12 08:07, Leonid Isaev wrote: The kernel is not new, but the same with a changed location of the modules. Why

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-15 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: Boot into single user mode and look at /var/log/auth.log. It should tell you what the problem is. Seemed some things were missing, one of them being login Which is *very strange* ... Fortunately I could afford to just dump this

Re: [arch-general] Upgraded kmod, but --ignored linux glibc, modules still in /lib - can I reboot safely?

2012-07-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/15/2012 06:07 AM, Heiko Baums wrote: If you ignore (don't update) linux then the modules are, of course, still in /lib. Maybe you should update your system following the News on the homepage. Heiko Hmm, I did, but I usually put off kernel updates for a week to insure there are

[arch-general] DeveloperWiki:usrlib - Note - rebuild any needed packages *before* attempting update

2012-07-15 Thread David C. Rankin
All, After working through the glibc update on several boxes, there should be a _note_ added to the wiki. You should check the ownership of files in /lib _before_ attempting any part of the latest update with: $ find /lib -exec pacman -Qo -- {} + You will need to rebuild _all_ custom

Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:usrlib - Note - rebuild any needed packages *before* attempting update

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 04:20:36PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: All, After working through the glibc update on several boxes, there should be a _note_ added to the wiki. You should check the ownership of files in /lib _before_ attempting any part of the latest update with: $ find /lib

Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:usrlib - Note - rebuild any needed packages *before* attempting update

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Wallace
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 04:20:36PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: All, After working through the glibc update on several boxes, there should be a _note_ added to the wiki. You should check the ownership of files in /lib _before_ attempting any part of the latest update with: $ find /lib

Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:usrlib - Note - rebuild any needed packages *before* attempting update

2012-07-15 Thread David C. Rankin
On 07/15/2012 04:52 PM, Daniel Wallace wrote: I missed your part about rebuilding before doing pacman -Syu --ignore glibc, that should be unnecessary as the files will be available in /usr/lib libpam provided the only problem. When the initial pacman -Syu --ignore glibc moved libpam* from

Re: [arch-general] DeveloperWiki:usrlib - Note - rebuild any needed packages *before* attempting update

2012-07-15 Thread Baho Utot
On 07/15/2012 06:25 PM, Daniel Wallace wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 05:20:03PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: On 07/15/2012 04:52 PM, Daniel Wallace wrote: I missed your part about rebuilding before doing pacman -Syu --ignore glibc, that should be unnecessary as the files will be available in

[arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible

2012-07-15 Thread Not To Miss
Dear Arch users, I have latest Arch installed on my desktop at work. In recent two weeks, the system randomly suspends at night (I call it randomly because it didn't happen every night. And it seems to happen after a random period idle time) when I am off. I can't wake it up in the next morning

Re: [arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible

2012-07-15 Thread Victor Silva
2012/7/15 Not To Miss not.to.m...@gmail.com Dear Arch users, I have latest Arch installed on my desktop at work. In recent two weeks, the system randomly suspends at night (I call it randomly because it didn't happen every night. And it seems to happen after a random period idle time) when

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-15 Thread Dave Morgan
On 15/07/12 at 08:40pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: Boot into single user mode and look at /var/log/auth.log. It should tell you what the problem is. Seemed some things were missing, one of them being login Which is *very

Re: [arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible

2012-07-15 Thread Not To Miss
I didn't remeber I had seen anything relevant in log files. Here is the most recent record in /var/log/messages files (I pressed reset button to reboot at Jul 15 20:37) with -- MARK -- \ message lines skipped: Jul 14 20:36:15 phelps kernel: [111935.191008] PGD 10b42e067 PUD 0 Jul 14 20:36:15

Re: [arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible

2012-07-15 Thread Victor Silva
2012/7/16 Not To Miss not.to.m...@gmail.com I didn't remeber I had seen anything relevant in log files. Here is the most recent record in /var/log/messages files (I pressed reset button to reboot at Jul 15 20:37) with -- MARK -- \ message lines skipped: Jul 14 20:36:15 phelps kernel:

Re: [arch-general] my Arch box randomly becomes irresponsible

2012-07-15 Thread Not To Miss
Thanks. I don't think it is related either. But perhaps I should fix that floppy error anyway Another thing I want to mention is that the screen jitters occasionally and when I lock the screen, only one monitor turns black while the other is still displaying with keyboard disabled but mouse still

[arch-general] Arch kernel on Linode, was Re: Upgraded kmod, but --ignored linux glibc, modules still in /lib - can I reboot safely?

2012-07-15 Thread David Benfell
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/15/12 18:09, C Anthony Risinger wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 4:14 PM, David Benfell benf...@parts-unknown.org wrote: I'd have to look into using a not-so-custom kernel (presumably from the Arch package). Ten years ago, I used to build