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crom

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-05-11

Posts: 43

Failed to install packages correctly

Hi,

duringf my latest upgrade, (on x86_64) I had a strange problem: for almost all packages, pacman wrote:
error: command failed to execute correctly

Directly after that, my system became unusable, because every command returned: "Too many levels of symbolic links".

I had to force power off, reboot did of course not work. A fsck on the root partition from a live cd showed some errors on the jfs file system, but it could be recovered, at least it is in a stable state again.

I mounted it and made a backup. Then I noticed dead symlinks on the partition.
I created a new ext4 fs on the partition and restored the backup. But I still can't chroot into the system because chroot cannot execute bash, still too many levels of symbolic links.

I can at least use pacman with the -r option to list the packages. I tried pacman -S base -r /oldroot , but I still get the same error (error: command failed to execute correctly).

Any further advices? Or the fastest way to reinstall the system?