Message: 2 Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 16:30:45 +0700 From: Emmanuel Benisty <benisty.e@gmail.com> To: General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general@archlinux.org> Subject: Re: [arch-general] Bug 22828 makes me "kill" my archlinux installation Message-ID: <AANLkTin1r2J7wMiP0mn7YNKT7FMb9vit=e4sRKYO0LB5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8

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Hello.

I'm kinda unlucky. I reported bug 22828, having lot of problem with gdm which cannot be "killed" at shutdown time.

This morning, before going to work, I faced again this bug.

I had to switch to a tty (using ctrl + alt +F2).

I typed halt to stop my computer, but it won't shutdown properly.

I have to shutdown on my computer, using power button.

When I wanted to boot it again, it is stopped at the start of boot

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:24 PM, fredbezies <fredbezies@gmail.com> wrote: process.

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I only get "linux:(none)" prompt and nothing more.

Any idea to avoid a full reinstall ?

are you sure it's the same issue? if you're using [testing], you most likely got hit by the bash/readline bug. chroot into your install (see chroot in archwiki) and downgrade those packages (bash-4.2.005 and readline-6.2.001) to their former version.

Indeed. It was this broken version. I updated at a bad time. Anyway, downgrading works. Too bad this broken update happened just before I have to go to work :( -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies@gmail.com