Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Indeed! I like arch linux, now I am more confident about solving the problems. Thank you all! Renzhi Cao Cell: 573-825-8874 Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu http://web.missouri.edu/~rcrg4/ From: arch-general on behalf of Emil Lundberg Sent: Monday, Ma

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, Paul: I have run ls -la /, and I do see /bin->usr/bin, ..., it seems that's a good news, cheers! Thank you so much! Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu http://web.missouri.edu/~rcrg4/ From: arch-general on behalf of Paul Gideon Da

Re: [arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Thanks Paul! The reason why I copy /bin/* to /mnt/bin is my/mnt/bin is not exists. I don't know what happens, it seems this is deleted when I try to fix my problem. I will see if my system works well, if not, I will be back again :) Indeed, I learn a lot and now becomes more confi

[arch-general] The pacman upgrading error has been solved

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi all: I really appreciate Emil Lundberg, Paul Gideon Dann, Temlin Oliv?r, , Guus Snijders' great suggestion, you are right, that's my fault to use /dev/mapper/arch_root_image as the root partition, now I can login the system,it seems my system is working now. There are two things I do t

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
recover pacman upgrade fails problem On Mar 10, 2014 4:18 PM, "Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)" wrote: > > Hi, > I use this system for almost one year, and don't update the system. I have tried mount /dev/sda3 as the root directory. And I try one thing before chroot: >

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, I use this system for almost one year, and don't update the system. I have tried mount /dev/sda3 as the root directory. And I try one thing before chroot: #mkdir /mnt/bin #cp /bin/* /mnt/bin #arch-chroot /mnt Now I can go to the chroot jail. And surprised to me, I run the following com

Re: [arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-10 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
ps a bit. :) On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: > Hi, all: > > I really have no idea for the pacman upgrading fails issue, so I > summarize the problem I meet, and the things I try, if any one can give me > suggestions of what I miss

[arch-general] Cannot recover pacman upgrade fails problem

2014-03-09 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, all: I really have no idea for the pacman upgrading fails issue, so I summarize the problem I meet, and the things I try, if any one can give me suggestions of what I miss something or I do something wrong, I really appreciate, if not, I hope this summation can benefit some other peopl

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
, 2014-03-08 at 17:58 +0000, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: > Ok, I have about 2T data there, I need to go by a external disk to > back up the data, and then updating the system. Thank you Sorry for my broken English. I guess "accidents happen" does mean that sometimes data is tou

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman andupdating the filesystem On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 17:49 +, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: > By the way, I am thinking the upgrading process will only influence > the system, not my data partition. I still need sugge

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
I never think in this way, thank you so much, I like your idea. Now, I will first try to fix this computer, and I have another computer, now is in XP system, I plan to install a arch linux there :) Thank you! Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
From: arch-general on behalf of Kinney Baughman Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2014 11:43 AM To: arch-general@archlinux.org Subject: Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacmanand updating the filesystem On 03/08/2014 11:53 AM, Cao, Renzhi

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-08 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 03:56:28AM +, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: > I plan to use : > dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1 2>&1 | grep GRUB > dd if

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
PM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject: Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem On 8 March 2014 03:29, Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) wrote: > I am not sure which one is used as my boot loader, could you please tell me > how to check that? I am thinking

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
I am not sure which one is used as my boot loader, could you please tell me how to check that? I am thinking using this following command: #pacman -Rs lilo #pacman -Rs grub-common #pacman -S grub Is that correct? Thank you so much! Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Thank you. Could you give me more details about updating them? I am new to arch linux, can I try to uninstall them, and later after my problem solved, install the new one by pacman? Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu From: arch-general on beha

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
kages in IgnorePkg or IgnoreGroup. Thank you all. Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.edu From: arch-general on behalf of Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student) Sent: Friday, March 7, 2014 3:52 PM To: General Discussion about Arch Linux Subject:

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-07 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
filesystem? I find out that I cannot access > the internet this time, can I still use that command? > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 7, 2014, at 1:07, Simon Brand wrote: > >> Am 07.03.2014 07:49, schrieb Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student): >>> Now, for my problem, is th

Re: [arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-06 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Thank you! You are right, what I did is based on that link: https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries-move-to-usrbin-requiring-update-intervention/ Now, for my problem, is there any way to repair that? Or you think I should reinstall my arch linux system? Renzhi Cao Email : rc...@mail.missouri.e

[arch-general] Problems of using pacman and updating the filesystem

2014-03-06 Thread Cao, Renzhi (MU-Student)
Hi, I get some problems about pacman. At beginning, I use pacman -Syu to update the system, and then I cannot login the system. I checked the internet, and then use CD to load the system, and use pacman -Syu mkinitcpio systemd linux, and get the following information: (133/133) checking for