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Hey there I've gone quite a bit without sleep so sorry if I'm not being clear on a few things. To clear the air I didn't force anything.
I run a few systems with Arch, and this last update really tested my patience. I got it working on my i686 system with nvidia propietary graphics and broadcom wireless card (I had to uninstall and reinstall a lot of core components a long with that propietary crap). It was frustrating but following the extra directions provided in the wiki I managed to solve this issue after I decided to sit down and figure it out.
Now, on my main x86_64 system which does all of my gerneral computing's heavy lifting I really messed things up. I'll go to say I have a relatively unique setup given that I run the 3.3.8-ck custom patched kernel. I also run this system with catalyst fglrx graphics. So I know I'm going to have to get a lot of BS out of the way in order to complete this glibc update - given I don't plan to wipe this system and start from scratch.
Problem right now is I can't seem to find my usb stick with archboot on it. I might have to make a new one. So this live-cd thing might have to wait a bit. It's my problem and not yours, so don't rub it in.
Now, on my last system (i686) I had to remove my kernel and it's header files along with other propietary stuff to get glibc updated. Luckily enough, I saved all of the binaries from compilation, and I had a pretty fat pacman cache which reinstalled a lot which was uninstalled when I got those things out of the way for glibc.
For my x86_64 system I don't have the same luxury. I can't find or I never saved the binaries for catalyst, along with the kernel and it's headers and all of the other crap which the kernel depends on (mkinitcpio, firmware stuff and so fourth) because I don't keep a pacman pkg cache on this system.
What I am asking for is a suggestion on how to get through this. Maybe I can remove the kernel firstly without removing the other things it asks to remove (how would I do that). Maybe I can move the files and put them back. I don't know what's best. Oh, and I don't care for redownloading the catalyst crap. But the kernel issue if what worries my (if I search grep '^lib/' /var/lib/pacman/local/*/files the -ck kernel and headers wiill come up).
And what's this I hear about lib32-glibc?
Oh, to put a cherry on this my keyboard / mouse no longer works after the update - even if I boot to runlevel 3. Why would this be? (that's why I mentioned the possibility of needing a live-cd earlier) Everything updated successfully besides glibc.
PS: When all of this is said and done, I will look into always making my systems with LVM so that I can restore things back to how they were 'yesterday' as they say.
Last edited by akspecs (2012-07-15 13:45:46)
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