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silverhammermba

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Registered: 2011-04-14

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glibc Upgrade Failing From Live Image

I managed to completely wreck my system during the /lib symlink upgrade. So I booted into a live image, mounted my partitions, and am trying to recover the system through various applications of

pacman -r newroot ...

There's all kinds of weird stuff going on now (I've modified the following console output to ignore the fact that I'm doing this in a different root)

# pacman -Su
targets (1): glibc-2.16.0-5
...
glibc: /lib exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/lib/ld-2.16.so exists in filesystem
(a whole bunch of similar errors)
glibc: /usr/lib/libutil.so.1 exists in filesystem

This is weird because there are conflicts with /lib and /usr/lib.

# grep '^lib' /var/lib/pacman/local/*/files
/var/lib/pacman/local/glibc-2.16.0-1/files:lib/
/var/lib/pacman/local/glibc-2.16.0-1/files:lib/ld-2.16.so
(a whole bunch of similar lines)
/var/lib/pacman/local/glibc-2.16.0-1/files:lib64

so nothing else owns lib.

Since I'm in a live environment, and the only thing left to install is glibc, would it be okay to use --force in this situation?

Last edited by silverhammermba (2012-11-04 19:03:55)

silverhammermba

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Re: glibc Upgrade Failing From Live Image

see first post.

Last edited by silverhammermba (2012-11-04 19:00:25)

silverhammermba

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Re: glibc Upgrade Failing From Live Image

see first post.

Last edited by silverhammermba (2012-11-04 19:02:49)

googol-1

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Registered: 2012-10-21

Posts: 22

Re: glibc Upgrade Failing From Live Image

https://www.archlinux.org/news/the-lib- … a-symlink/

Never use --force during this update.

maybe this helps
http://allanmcrae.com/2012/07/updating- … e-install/

silverhammermba

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Re: glibc Upgrade Failing From Live Image

I already tried those steps. I get the same error.