On Sat, 2014-03-08 at 12:40 -0500, Kinney Baughman wrote: > you could already have a new box up and running, one that > you can be sure is trim and solid and you will not learn something useful, if you try to repair your broken install. You will learn what to do and forget what you learned, because you won't need to do this things that often. Better make a new install and then update your Arch more often. From time to time take a look at the news on https://www.archlinux.org/ .