On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 05:43:52PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote:

Did you follow the instructions in the news item?

One thing to try would be "pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem", reboot Can't do that. Because 'kernel26-lts' needed to be replaced by 'linux- lts', if I don't update 'filesystem', then pacman won't update anything due to some dependency errors.

I updated 'pacman' first, then force updated 'filesystem', and reboot. VPS worked fine. After a system update (pacman -Syu), the VPS is dead, again.

and check if your server still works, and only then upgrade filesestem. At least that will tell you what the culprit is.

-t

yes like VNC? don't you have any other access than SSH? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:34:01 +0800 Bill Sun wrote:

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VPS provider info

Sometimes they will have or attach upon request a KVM that you can connect to usually via crappy JAVA?

arpnetworks.com have serial over ssh etc.. too

so? why don't you access it my serial? PS: serial console? WTF? 50 years ago??? (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Szu-Han Chen wrote:

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 06:53:43PM +0300, Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote:

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yes like VNC? don't you have any other access than SSH?

(\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.)

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kevin Chadwick

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On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 23:34:01 +0800 Bill Sun wrote:

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VPS provider info

Sometimes they will have or attach upon request a KVM that you can connect to usually via crappy JAVA?

arpnetworks.com have serial over ssh etc.. too

Yes, usually vps hosts using solusvm will have serial console access.

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another format maybe? but make sure that you have serial access before upgrading! provider: edis.at cheapest VPS ever (i just love their support) id you have money to go for a dedi, then go for it and don't even think about VPS PS: i think that KVM (my host has) is better than XEN. Also you have VNC access (even BIOS) :) (\_ /) copy the bunny to your profile (0.o ) to help him achieve world domination. (> <) come join the dark side. /_|_\ (we have cookies.) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 21:22:43 +0300 Δημήτρης Ζέρβας wrote:

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so? why don't you access it my serial? PS: serial console? WTF? 50 years ago???

And still demanded by many on servers.

With suns you can access bios over serial. You need networked KVM for that on PCs.

You can set screen output from bootup onwards to serial rather than VGA.

Granted the serial mode doesn't help untill he's up and running again but he could take the opportunity to switch provider if possible.

arpnetworks.com solution is pretty cool. I'd use it if I had more faith in VPS security over bare metal.

On 06/13/2012 06:04 AM, Bill Sun wrote:

I got the error message:

ERROR: device '/dev/xvda1' not found. Skipping fsck. ERROR: Unable to find root device '/dev/xvda1'. You are being dropped to a recovery shell Type 'exit' to try and continue booting sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

Regards

Looks like your initramfs got borked when you updated the kernel. Make sure to read the recent news article [1] about systemd-tools replacing udev (and maybe the last question in the troubleshooting section of the pacman wiki page [2]), and be sure to run this after updating (but before rebooting): # mkinitcpio -p linux [1] http://www.archlinux.org/news/systemd-tools-replaces-udev/ [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Troubleshooting -- Kevin Arthur

Problem solved. Thanks. I probably should put a more comprehensive solution here. I consulted the 'Xen' [1] entry in archwiki, and add: MODULES="xen-blkfront xen-fbfront xenfs xen-netfront xen-kbdfront" to '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 09:19:43PM +0800, Bill Sun wrote: then regenerated the initramfs image. Problem solved. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xen Regards.