On 15/07/12 at 08:40pm, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > 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) > The most likely reason for /bin/login being missing is that the upgrade was forced. -- Dave.
