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1. mahdif62
   Member

   I upgraded Kahel OS by typing the command:
   pacman -Syfu
   All packages were downloaded and the upgrade began. However, in the middle of the upgrade, the gnome desktop froze and became non responsive. so I killed the X server and hit Alt+Ctrl+F1 to do the upgrade in the virtual console. But when I typed the upgrade command, it said the local database is up to date nad exited. The system now fails to boot due to a kernel panic.Please help me as it took me 15 hours to download all the packages!

   Posted 8 months ago #

2. joelbryan
   Member

   Hi Mahdif62,

   Could you try to reinstall all your packages via
   pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)")

   Posted 8 months ago #

3. agi
   Member

   Hi mahdif62:

   1. Gnome probably frozed because of forcefully updating PolicyKit and/or HAL+DBus.
   2. pacman is correct on saying the local database is in-synched with the remote repos.
   3. Kernel panic is probably due to unfinished updates of the initramfs image (which is called during kernel updates). When you killed the X server, all its children processes were killed too.

   What you can do:

   1. Boot with the install cd.
   2. Mount your root and mount your boot under that.
   3. chroot to the mounted root
   4. Start mkinitcpio.
   5. Reboot, your installation should be able to boot now.
   6. Go to a virtual console.
   7. Start your network connections manually.
   8. pacman -Syyu

   The -f option should only be used when you're dealing with replacement or conflicting packages, not when you are performing a full system upgrade. The same goes to the -d option.

   If you're still bumped, you can reach us at #kahelos @irc.freenode.net and we'll try our best to guide you. Good luck.

   Posted 8 months ago #

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