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popso

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 17

[SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

So i tried to update today like any other day and got this error :
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
glibc: /lib exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
After reading the news i proceed to do : "sudo pacman -Syu --ignore glibc", which worked perfectly but "sudo pacman -Su" kept sending me the previous error.
The command "find /lib -exec pacman -Qo -- {} +" found that no package except glibc owned files in /lib.

Then i red "you can safely remove that directory". So i did "sudo srm -r /lib". Screen went black. I realised my error, panicked and shutdown manually.
When i boot i've got now this :
error loading shared libraries libdl.so.2
(none) login :
(and a /bin/bash error i forgot to wrote down)

I'm on an ubuntu partition right now. The symlink /lib/libdl.so.2 is broken. And i'm desperate, any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance

(Sorry for my bad english)

Last edited by popso (2012-07-15 13:41:06)

tomegun

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From: France

Registered: 2010-05-28

Posts: 661

Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

You essentially deleted glibc, so your system is now broken.

You'll need to get a live medium (such as the newest testing iso), boot that, mount your partition, and install glibc again. If there really was nothing else in /lib that you deleted, you should be ok...

Ignatius881

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From: Oviedo (Spain)

Registered: 2011-01-01

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

Try to use this:

pacman -Syu --ignore glibc
pacman -Su

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … iki:usrlib

Last edited by Ignatius881 (2012-07-15 12:39:14)

popso

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

You essentially deleted glibc, so your system is now broken.

You'll need to get a live medium (such as the newest testing iso), boot that, mount your partition, and install glibc again. If there really was nothing else in /lib that you deleted, you should be ok...

Do you have a tutorial of some kind ? I know there would be a chroot but i don't want to do more mistakes.

89c51

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Registered: 2012-06-05

Posts: 741

Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

I think a

pacman -S glibc 

will do the trick once you chrooted in it

The chroot tutorial in the wiki is pretty good and detailed i think. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chroot

Last edited by 89c51 (2012-07-15 12:57:57)

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

Except... without those files you can not chroot.

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popso

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

The command ls -l in /lib give me that :

total 3128
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  150998 2012-07-02 17:27 ld-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      10 2012-07-02 17:27 ld-linux.so.2 -> ld-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      14 2012-07-02 17:27 libanl.so.1 -> libanl-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    5544 2012-07-02 17:27 libBrokenLocale-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1967415 2012-07-02 17:27 libc-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  185924 2012-07-02 17:27 libcidn-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      15 2012-07-02 17:27 libcidn.so.1 -> libcidn-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   34324 2012-07-02 17:27 libcrypt-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12 2012-07-02 17:27 libc.so.6 -> libc-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 2012-07-02 17:27 libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  255492 2012-07-02 17:27 libm-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   17948 2012-07-02 17:27 libmemusage.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12 2012-07-02 17:27 libm.so.6 -> libm-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   87920 2012-07-02 17:27 libnsl-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   30544 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_compat-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      21 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_compat.so.2 -> libnss_compat-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   26180 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_db-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_db.so.2 -> libnss_db-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   17996 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_hesiod-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   42652 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_nis-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   50804 2012-07-02 17:27 libnss_nisplus-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    5548 2012-07-02 17:27 libpcprofile.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  130395 2012-07-15 14:59 libpthread-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      18 2012-07-02 17:27 libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   83772 2012-07-02 17:27 libresolv-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      17 2012-07-02 17:27 libresolv.so.2 -> libresolv-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   30684 2012-07-02 17:27 librt-2.16.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 2012-07-02 17:27 librt.so.1 -> librt-2.16.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   36005 2012-07-02 17:27 libthread_db-1.0.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      19 2012-07-02 17:27 libthread_db.so.1 -> libthread_db-1.0.so
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 2012-07-15 14:54 modules

Maybe it will help

edit : The lines lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      14 2012-07-02 17:27 libanl.so.1 -> libanl-2.16.so and lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 2012-07-02 17:27 libdl.so.2 -> libdl-2.16.so are in red.

Last edited by popso (2012-07-15 13:05:21)

popso

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

SOLVED !

I went to /var/cache/pacman/pkg and found the previous version of glibc. I then extracted everything from the lib folder in the package to the lib of the system.

I'm writing this from arch (feels so good).

Thanks for your replies.

cabutan

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Registered: 2012-07-18

Posts: 31

Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

SOLVED !

I went to /var/cache/pacman/pkg and found the previous version of glibc. I then extracted everything from the lib folder in the package to the lib of the system.

I'm writing this from arch (feels so good).

Thanks for your replies.

so, how did you extract the package? I tried tar xvf and I get an error.

popso

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Registered: 2012-07-15

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] broken system and glibc update

SOLVED !

I went to /var/cache/pacman/pkg and found the previous version of glibc. I then extracted everything from the lib folder in the package to the lib of the system.

I'm writing this from arch (feels so good).

Thanks for your replies.

so, how did you extract the package? I tried tar xvf and I get an error.

Like i said in my first post i was on ubuntu. I did a sudo nautilus, used file-roller to open the package.

If you did not reboot see this post https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 6#p1130136.