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hank_scorpio

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Registered: 2005-10-08

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Catastrophic Upgrade [SOLVED]

I just did a full system update after not updating anything for about 4 months. Now, many libraries are missing, and only a few programs will start properly. Libstdc++.so.6 and libgcc_s.so.1 are the most commonly complained about, but I have also found that libssp.so.0 has run off somewhere. X won't start, and I am posting this from lynx. Any ideas or packages I could install that would put all that I am missing back in place?

Last edited by hank_scorpio (2008-03-06 19:07:22)

hank_scorpio

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Registered: 2005-10-08

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Re: Catastrophic Upgrade [SOLVED]

Just got X to work by copying over some libs from a google-earth installation in my home folder (probably not the best idea), but my mouse is not functioning, and nothing involving qt is working. Agh! Good thing I am getting a new computer in 8 days.

ibendiben

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Re: Catastrophic Upgrade [SOLVED]

pacman -Sf gcc-libs

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ibendiben

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Re: Catastrophic Upgrade [SOLVED]

Maybe try reinstalling 'xorg' group and 'qt' too, when needed by force like 'gcc-libs', with the pacman -Sf switch.

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Geekosaurio

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From: Valencia - Venezuela

Registered: 2007-04-26

Posts: 17

Re: Catastrophic Upgrade [SOLVED]

Have you check if pacman is using the new pacman.conf that was installed as pacman.conf.pacnew when you update, just to be sure that the repositories are used properly.

Last edited by Geekosaurio (2008-03-05 17:37:18)

Skyscraper

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Registered: 2005-06-20

Posts: 72

Re: Catastrophic Upgrade [SOLVED]

Today I made an upgrade on my laptop. 1,5 year old Archlinux 7.2 system. I was wondering what surprises I get after such huge (about 700Mb) upgrade.  I started with pacman - of course. I had problems with fetching packages from repositories (550 no such file...) so i downloaded manually latest packages (needed to install latest pacman) and
# pacman -U package
# pacman -Uf package ---- if needed
(forcing if needed everywhere =but not always!!!)

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[03/05/08 12:35] upgraded kernel-headers (2.6.18.1-1 -> 2.6.23.1-2)
[03/05/08 12:35] installed tzdata (2007k-1)
[03/05/08 11:36] warning: extracting /etc/locale.gen as /etc/locale.gen.pacnew
[03/05/08 11:36] upgraded glibc (2.4-4 -> 2.7-7)
[03/05/08 11:36] installed gcc-libs (4.2.3-3)
[03/05/08 11:36] upgraded libdownload (1.3-1 -> 1.3-1)
[03/05/08 11:37] upgraded libarchive (2.4.12-1 -> 2.4.12-1)
[03/05/08 11:37] warning: extracting /etc/pacman.conf as /etc/pacman.conf.pacnew
[03/05/08 11:37] warning: extracting /etc/makepkg.conf as /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew
[03/05/08 11:37] upgraded pacman (2.9.8-4 -> 3.1.2-1)
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I configured /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist and
# mv pacman.conf.pacnew pacman.conf
and started to
# pacman -Syu

I received 2 conflict errors from 418 !!!
- termcap
- on_ac_power

So i just forced update. And guess what??! It went flawlessly! Almost. There were problems several mentioned by hank_scorpio. Essepcially with QT and others libraries and symlinks - this helped:

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[2008-03-05 13:10] upgraded gcc-libs (4.2.3-3 -> 4.2.3-3)
[2008-03-05 13:11] mlocate command is technically locate, but slocate is symlinked and still works.
[2008-03-05 13:11] You should run updatedb as root.
[2008-03-05 13:11] installed mlocate (0.18-2)
[2008-03-05 13:25] upgraded qt3 (3.3.8-6.1 -> 3.3.8-6.1)
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then i edited /etc/ld.so.conf to look like this:

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/usr/X11R6/lib
/opt/kde/lib
/opt/qt/lib
/usr/lib/libfakeroot
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then

# ldconfig
# updatedb

synchronized .pacnew versions of config files. (diff helped me )

and everything is working just fine!!!! If You are interested what packages were exactly upgraded/installed i'lll list the pacman.log

HAVE FUN anf thanks for all the fish ArchLinux Developers!!!!
It was my second such huge upgrade 

Best!

hank_scorpio

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Registered: 2005-10-08

Posts: 3

Re: Catastrophic Upgrade [SOLVED]

Managed to get everything working again. Nice!