iPod b0rked again in arch [SOLVED ~*AGAIN*~]

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:46 pm

A recent update - not sure what - done b0rked my flippin' ipod. Again. No udev rules I'm aware of seem to work now. I never get a /dev/ipod, and I've tried at least 5 different rules. Just a heads up.

I don't have time for this crap anymore...

Wally Balljacker · Post by **Wally Balljacker** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:22 pm

You going to ditch Arch?

Post by **Patrick** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:30 pm

I have a problem with my Arch box as well. Today I tried booting it up and got the following messages:
mount: Mounting /dev/root on /new_root failed Invalid arguement
pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory
umount: /initrd: No such file or directory
/linuxrc: 385: /sbin/busybox: not found
Freeing unused kernel memory:252k freed
/bin/sh: Can't open auto
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted ot kill init

Has my system been hacked into? This is the first time any distro has crapped out on me in this fashion. What do you guys think?

CptnObvious999 · Post by **CptnObvious999** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 4:41 pm

Patrick wrote:I have a problem with my Arch box as well. Today I tried booting it up and got the following messages:
mount: Mounting /dev/root on /new_root failed Invalid arguement
pivot_root: pivot_root: No such file or directory
umount: /initrd: No such file or directory
/linuxrc: 385: /sbin/busybox: not found
Freeing unused kernel memory:252k freed
/bin/sh: Can't open auto
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted ot kill init

Has my system been hacked into? This is the first time any distro has crapped out on me in this fashion. What do you guys think?

I am going to take a guess and say its something with the root partition not working while your boot partition is still fine. But I have never seen anything like that so Im not sure. Try using knoppix to do some diagnostics. (I always use Gentoo's install/livecd since I can just chroot into their without using the kernel if something goes really wrong like when I uninstalled grub

but you might be able to do that through Knoppix, although I havn't tried)

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 6:13 pm

Wally Balljacker wrote:You going to ditch Arch?

Dunno, honestly. I still think it's a fantastic distro, but I really do not have time to fart around with my linux box twice a week -- I'm trying like hell to learn cisco. This means either no upgrading or a different distro, I guess. This pisses me off more than most issues though, since I've now solved this issue twice, and have to figure out WTF is wrong now.

Judland · Post by **Judland** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 11:42 pm

I'm still running Arch, but I'll admit I haven't done a full system upgrade for ages.

I've been enjoying my test run with Slackware on my spare PC. Something tells me I'll be moving my main PC over to it as well in the near future.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 12:30 am

OK - solved. Again. I had named my rule 00.rules as per "The Arch Way" outlined in one of the udev wiki entries. After trying a billion different combos of udev rules, I decided, no clue why, to rename 00.rules to ipod.rules, and magically things work again. This is completely reproducible. WTF is up with that?

Linc · Post by **Linc** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 1:07 am

Judland wrote: I've been enjoying my test run with Slackware on my spare PC. Something tells me I'll be moving my main PC over to it as well in the near future.

Yes, Slackware can be addicting.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 10:07 am

Eh. Nope. This only sort of works afterall. I'm wondering if my ipod is fuxored somehow, though I seriously doubt it.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Sat Apr 01, 2006 2:36 am

BUS=="scsi", SYSFS{vendor}=="Apple", KERNEL=="sd?2", SYSFS{model}=="iPod*", NAME="%k", SYMLINK+="ipod"

This worked, finally. I have mounted, unmounted, and rebooted. I can still mount and unmount my ipod. Happy happy joy joy.

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iPod b0rked again in arch [SOLVED ~AGAIN~]

iPod b0rked again in arch [SOLVED ~AGAIN~]