Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-16 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > I agree. We are currently in the final stages of testing a new iso. I'm > also advocating we drop the core instal as it is causing too many problems > in case it is outdated. what if we only built net-install images, and "core" images were

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-16 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Christoph Vigano wrote: > The only thing that would kind of prevent the breakage would be the > quick release of a new iso. I do not know whether this is possible. We hope to have a new process in place so that very frequent iso releases are possible. However, I t

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-16 Thread Christoph Vigano
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 > I agree. We are currently in the final stages of testing a new iso. > I'm also advocating we drop the core instal as it is causing too > many problems in case it is outdated. This seems to be a step in the right direction, works smoothly for othe

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-16 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jul 16, 2012 1:02 PM, "Fons Adriaensen" wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:20:10PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2012 12:17 PM, "Fons Adriaensen" wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:42:28AM +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The most likely reason for /bin/

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:20:10PM +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Jul 16, 2012 12:17 PM, "Fons Adriaensen" wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:42:28AM +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > > > > > > > The most likely reason for /bin/login being missing is that the upgrade > > > was forced. > > > > N

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-16 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Jul 16, 2012 12:17 PM, "Fons Adriaensen" wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:42:28AM +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > > > > The most likely reason for /bin/login being missing is that the upgrade > > was forced. > > No, it was not. As already said I followed the instructions > which clearly stated

Re: [arch-general] login fails after update

2012-07-16 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 04:42:28AM +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > The most likely reason for /bin/login being missing is that the upgrade > was forced. No, it was not. As already said I followed the instructions which clearly stated not to use --force. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliabl

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 *ver

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 thi

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 > enteri

[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 fe