PCLinuxOS hangs on boot after installing updates yesterday

[nemesys]

Positive. In fact i tried the fsck and appending 1 even before you suggested it. Ugh. I dont like the looks of this

[AS]

Positive. In fact i tried the fsck and appending 1 even before you suggested it. Ugh. I dont like the looks of this

nope! you are doing it wrongly! network service doesn't even start at runlevel 1

that how it should come up at runlevel 1:



AS

[nemesys]

Not sure what i could be doing wrong. I hit f3 (f6 did nothing) at the grub menu, added the parameters you suggested including the 1.

[nemesys]

Ok. I missed the part where you said i should be doing this with the livecd. Sorry- im beyond stressed out.
So i followed your instructions and i get a command promt. I su, and I see [root@localhost  ]#  i try "rpm -e dkms-broadcom-wl" and i get "error: unable to open  /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: input/output error."

[AS]

Ok. I missed the part where you said i should be doing this with the livecd. Sorry- im beyond stressed out.
So i followed your instructions and i get a command promt. I su, and I see [root@localhost  ]#  i try "rpm -e dkms-broadcom-wl" and i get "error: unable to open  /usr/lib/rpm/rpmrc for reading: input/output error."

Your installation is corrupted, and that's the reason why it hangs at boot. Although the broadcom-wl driver update was affected from some issue, that was limited to the network connectivity only, as it appear from the other 3 reports about broadcom-wl.

I would suggest a reinstall.

AS

[nemesys]

I was afraid you might say that

[AS]

I was afraid you might say that

I know, but in my view is the fastest path to successfully recover your system, dealing with a damaged installation is very difficult even for experts!

The installation itself is very fast, you only need to backup and reinstall your own data, using a LiveCD, if not already done.

AS

[nemesys]

This problem has just come back on 6/14/12 with the latest round of updates. Exactly the same as before so I suspect it's not a corruption second time around.  I had my doubts the first time.  I'm going to try the fix again and report back.