On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Bill Sun <cap.sensitive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I rent a VPS from a not-so-famous provider, and they use XEN. After I > updated my system on Jun 10 (I update my system every Sundays), My VPS > seems dead. I can't ssh to it, I can't ping to it, I can't do anything > to it. I don't get any error message from the SolusVM control panel---it > says: 'online' > > The service of my provider is not that good, so I really don't get any > useful info from them. I re-installed the OS (they provide > Archlinux-2011.7-x86-64), and the VPS is accessible again. But after I > update that new system, The VPS stopped working, same as above. > > All I know is that update includes 'filesystem' package. So I suspect > the updated 'filesystem' package is the culprit. Maybe the 'init' > process encountered some errors. > > No error log (probably won't get anything anyway), so... Did you follow the instructions in the news item? One thing to try would be "pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem", reboot and check if your server still works, and only then upgrade filesestem. At least that will tell you what the culprit is. -t
