[SOLVED]/me slaps forehead - accidentally installed from 32-bit repo

sultanoswing · 2009-11-23 11:14:55

Thanks to a non-synching local mirror (ihug.nz), I fiddled with pacman.d/mirrorlist.

No problem on my 32-bit install, but I stupidly copied the 32-bit mirrorlist to my 64-bit laptop then did a pacman -Syyu and installed 156MB of updates today.

Now of course X won't start on reboot (wrong ELFCLASS etc).

Can I restore this easily by reneabling the proper 64-bit repo and resynching / resintalling X?

I hope so!!

[EDIT] Bah. I've bitten the bullet and issued:

pacman -S $(pacman -Qq | grep -v "$(pacman -Qmq)")

...obviously with the x86_64 bit repo renabled!!

Last edited by sultanoswing (2009-11-24 08:52:35)

fukawi2 · 2009-11-23 23:08:46

Been there, done exactly that... It sucks the big one!

Can't wait for this patch to be released!
http://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.gi … a9d4385ec3

sand_man · 2009-11-23 23:18:24

Can't you just check pacman.log and uninstall those packages?

Xyne · 2009-11-23 23:21:48

Just install each of those packages twice... 2 * 32 = 64, problem solved.

sultanoswing · 2009-11-24 08:54:02

Yup - manually reinstalling the packages indicated in pacman.log worked.

It was annoying that there was a download error somewhere in the 1.2GB full reinstall download which meant no transactions occurred, but at least the newly downloaded packages in the cache meant the limited reinstall went without a hitch.

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#1 2009-11-23 11:14:55

[SOLVED]/me slaps forehead - accidentally installed from 32-bit repo

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