On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:11:28AM +0100, Dave Morgan wrote: > Boot into single user mode and look at /var/log/auth.log. It should > tell you what the problem is. Seemed some things were missing, one of them being login.... Which is *very strange* ... Fortunately I could afford to just dump this system and do a fresh netinstall - all OK now. It was installed something like half a year ago and not used at all before I tried the upgrade. So I really wonder if the late 2011 install image followed by a pacman -Syu still works, as far as I can tell it doesn't, and only a netinstall will. Ciao, -- FA A world of exhaustive, reliable metadata would be an utopia. It's also a pipe-dream, founded on self-delusion, nerd hubris and hysterically inflated market opportunities. (Cory Doctorow)
