My linux has fell over

Enfield

Enfield

Enfield

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Hi guys,

I run Archlinux and I believe that since I have updated the system as normal (pacman -Syu) the network keeps dropping then doesn't come back up again untill I reboot.

Even when I reboot it just hangs. It comes out of XFCE fine but then just stops so I have to force it to shut down.

Today it will not even boot into the system. It gets as far as trying to load up the network profile but goes no further. Is there a way I can by-pass this?

I'm using Arch also with latest updates on this laptop and it has had no problems what so ever. My PC has never had any problems ever apart from this and I'm quite worried because I don't want to wipe it and start again from scratch because I have data on the disk that I need.


Cheers
 
can you use the -f tag to force pacman to re-install the network modules it updated? (pacman log is typically in /var/log/pacman.log)
 
use the install cd to boot to a terminal and mount your root filesytem from there (where you would normally start the setup util off the cd)
if pacman won't work you could remove the networking stuff (comment out) from rc.conf (think thats right for arch, it's been afew months since last I used it)
 
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