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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

downgrade from nptl broke pacman!

[11] root:~ # pacman -Sy
:: Synchronizing package databases... 
getservbyname: No such file or directory
error: cannot connect to ftp.archlinux.org
getservbyname: Illegal seek
error: cannot connect to ftp.oit.unc.edu
getservbyname: Illegal seek
error: cannot connect to ftp.archlinux.de
getservbyname: Illegal seek
error: cannot connect to ftp.ibiblio.org
gethostbyname: Illegal seek

(etc. through all the mirrors)

i tried to reinstall, but it wouldn't work:

[12] root:~ # pacman -S pacman

Targets: pacman-2.8.1-1

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... 
error: the following file conflicts were found:
  /etc/abs/abs.conf: exists in filesystem
  /etc/abs/supfile.arch: exists in filesystem
  /etc/abs/supfile.extra: exists in filesystem
  /etc/abs/supfile.unstable: exists in filesystem
  /etc/makepkg.conf: exists in filesystem
  /etc/pacman.conf: exists in filesystem
  /usr/bin/abs: exists in filesystem
  /usr/bin/convertdb: exists in filesystem
  /usr/bin/gensync: exists in filesystem
  /usr/bin/makepkg: exists in filesystem
  /usr/bin/makeworld: exists in filesystem
  /usr/bin/pacman: exists in filesystem
  /usr/bin/sortmirrors.pl: exists in filesystem
  /usr/bin/vercmp: exists in filesystem
  /usr/man/man8/makepkg.8.gz: exists in filesystem
  /usr/man/man8/pacman.8.gz: exists in filesystem

errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

what should i do next?

sarah31

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From: Middle of Canada

Registered: 2002-08-20

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Re: downgrade from nptl broke pacman!

did you recompile pacman to be statically linked to your old nptl glibc?

if so youi could just force the install of the non nptl :

pacman -Sf pacman

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slackhack

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Registered: 2004-06-30

Posts: 738

Re: downgrade from nptl broke pacman!

whew, thanks, i always forget about that f option.