Deleted /lib and update problem

Lea · 2012-07-15 13:41:55

I did stupid stupid thing.

I had conflicting problems with

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
glibc: /lib exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

After taht i did

pacman -Syu --ignore glibc
pacman -Su

The problems were still there so i followed wiki guide for manual intervention.
i did everything wiki said and delted /lib/modules. It wasn't getting better...
i still couldn't update. and then by accident deleted /lib. :'(

Everytnig is crashing now, i cant use firefox... I never had problem like this
I dont know what to do. I'm going crazy. Have deadline to meet soon and my
computer is fucking useful like an eggplant.

popso · 2012-07-15 13:57:32

Seems i'm not the only one to made that mistake.

I solved it by extracting the lib folder of /var/cache/pacman/pkg/glibc-2.16.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz into /lib.

Lea · 2012-07-15 14:07:15

Thank you. So much. How have you done this? Beacuse mkdir, cp and stuff is not working any more.
I think i should mount disk to another computer but i'm afraid it won't boot any more. And i'm using macbook
so cant boot from usb, and my cd-player is broken.

Last edited by Lea (2012-07-15 14:07:44)

cfr · 2012-07-15 14:09:06

Macbooks can't be booted from USB?

popso · 2012-07-15 14:10:43

I did this from an ubuntu partition, after rebooting it was all fine. So yes you should mount from another computer.

Lea · 2012-07-15 14:12:22

By default no. You can make some dirty hacks and enable this.

Lea · 2012-07-15 14:13:05

Ok, im going to try this.

darut · 2012-07-15 14:33:37

popso could you attach the glibc-2.16.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz package?

popso · 2012-07-15 14:36:40

I could if you tell me how. You don't have it ?

fsckd · 2012-07-15 14:40:48

popso wrote:

I solved it by extracting the lib folder of /var/cache/pacman/pkg/glibc-2.16.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz into /lib.

Why not pacman -r ?

popso · 2012-07-15 14:46:36

fsckd wrote:

popso wrote:
I solved it by extracting the lib folder of /var/cache/pacman/pkg/glibc-2.16.0-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz into /lib.
Why not pacman -r ?

Because i didn't know it. It's a temporary solution before the upgrade anyway.

cfr · 2012-07-15 14:48:16

Lea wrote:

By default no. You can make some dirty hacks and enable this.

Interesting - I thought the switch to intel did away with the need for such things. [ppc machines were like this which is why they always told you to get an external drive with firewire for bootable backups.]

EDIT: Oh, I see. It only works "out of the box" if you have a GUID partition map *and* an installation of OS X on the external drive. That sucks.

Last edited by cfr (2012-07-15 22:30:37)

darut · 2012-07-15 14:57:12

popso mail it to me please - darutek@gmail.com.

Last edited by darut (2012-07-15 15:06:06)

fsckd · 2012-07-15 15:00:42

darut, at the top of the page look for a link "Packages". Click it and then search for glibc. Find the one that is yours, click that and on the right click "Download From Mirror".

popso · 2012-07-15 15:04:53

darut wrote:

popso mail it to me darutek@gmail.com.

I just send it.

darut · 2012-07-15 15:07:09

I've got it, thanks.

popso · 2012-07-15 15:09:21

fsckd wrote:

darut, at the top of the page look for a link "Packages". Click it and then search for glibc. Find the one that is yours, click that and on the right click "Download From Mirror".

It's the 2.16.0-2 version which doesn't have the lib folder.

fsckd · 2012-07-15 15:15:34

popso wrote:

fsckd wrote:
darut, at the top of the page look for a link "Packages". Click it and then search for glibc. Find the one that is yours, click that and on the right click "Download From Mirror".
It's the 2.16.0-2 version which doesn't have the lib folder.

Ahh, ok.

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