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