On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Bill Sun <cap.sensitive@gmail.com> wrote:
I rent a VPS from a not-so-famous provider, and they use XEN. After I updated my system on Jun 10 (I update my system every Sundays), My VPS seems dead. I can't ssh to it, I can't ping to it, I can't do anything to it. I don't get any error message from the SolusVM control panel---it says: 'online'
The service of my provider is not that good, so I really don't get any useful info from them. I re-installed the OS (they provide Archlinux-2011.7-x86-64), and the VPS is accessible again. But after I update that new system, The VPS stopped working, same as above.
All I know is that update includes 'filesystem' package. So I suspect the updated 'filesystem' package is the culprit. Maybe the 'init' process encountered some errors.
No error log (probably won't get anything anyway), so...
Did you follow the instructions in the news item? One thing to try would be "pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem", reboot and check if your server still works, and only then upgrade filesestem. At least that will tell you what the culprit is. -t