Hi, All. For several reasons I decided to remove the group 'gnome-extra' from my system. During the uninstallation, something went wrong. For a 'funny' reason, which I may explain later, I wasn't able to post the error log in the form of text here, so I will upload a photo as an attachment[1] with this mail... So, I switched to a getty and started the uninstallation. No errors occourred until it reached the 15th package. The package name was 'telepathy-idle'. All of a sudden the system printed a large section of dmesg, saying something like it had run into a kernel bug(?). The pacman was then killed, leaving the zsh reporting a segmentation fault... I felt the possibility that I wasn't able to handle this problem on my own, so I took a photograph using my mobile without even thinking, which proved to be useful later. Then I ran # dmesg >> /root/dmesg.output hoping to save the error log. I tried to restart the uninstallation, but the pacman freezed. Even pressing CTRL-C didn't work. I switched to another getty attemptting to terminal in, but after I entered 'root' and pressed ENTER, no any output. The course was just left there, blinking. Having no choice, I reboot the system using the magic sysrq keys... Rebooted, I checked the package changes. Confusingly, no packages was removed, even the previous should-be-removed 15 ones! Bad feeling about this, I checked the /root directory, and here came the most confusing part: The dmesg.output file was GONE! It seemed that all the data that should have been written to the disk were discarded... (And that's the reason why I have to post the error log in the form of shooted image... Somehow, I found myself a potential prophet... :P JUST KID...) Judged by this, together with the previous error log, I would say it's a file system bug... But, confused, how can an uninstallation of packages end up like this way? :( I would appreciate any help from you guys. Truly would. Thank you in advance! :) PS: I'm not going to post my pacman.conf here because all modification I had ever done to this file was to enable the color output. I suppose it can be excluded from the possible causes... And if necessary, I would recur the uninstallation with '--debug' flag enabled and report it to the upstream developer... [1] Upadte: Unable to upload the image file because it's too big to be attached in this mailing list... So I uploaded it to a local website and I will post the image address here. Image Address: http://imgsrc.baidu.com/forum/pic/item/7bf9f2c4b74543a9b 9da16cf14178a82bb0114d4.jpg RW