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#1 2016-02-04 20:38:01
- kyku
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- Registered: 2006-02-07
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Unable to login to a server after ncurses update.
I wanted to do some remote work on an ArchLinux server. Because the work would take a while I decided to execute it in an screen session. So first I installed screen:
# pacman -Sy; pacman -S screen
Next I tried running screen and and I got a complaint that it is missing libncursesw.so.6. I scratched my head wandering why it was not listed in screen's dependencies but anyhow installed it manually with pacman -S ncurses.
Now it turned out that bash on that particular installation requires libncursesw.so.5, which is no longer available on my server and I can no longer log into it with ssh.
Is it possible to remotely restore the system to a working state?
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#2 2016-02-04 20:40:01
- jasonwryan
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- Registered: 2009-05-09
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Re: Unable to login to a server after ncurses update.
You should never -Sy $package: for this very reason...
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