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Ztjuh

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Registered: 2011-05-30

Posts: 58

[SOLVED] Migrating between architectures

Hello,

I was migrating from 32 bit to 64 bit following this wiki page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … hitectures

I used Method 2: from a running system.

Everything went well untill I was at step:
# pacman -S lib32-glibc

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
lib32-glibc: /usr/include/gnu/lib-names-32.h exists in filesystem
lib32-glibc: /usr/include/gnu/stubs-32.h exists in filesystem
lib32-glibc: /usr/lib/ld-linux.so.2 exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[user@system ~]$ sudo rm -rf /usr/include/gnu/lib-names-32.h /usr/include/gnu/stubs-32.h /usr/lib/ld-linux.so.2
[user@system ~]$ sudo pacman -S lib32-glibc
-bash: /usr/bin/sudo: No such file or directory

OOPS! I should have run --force option, then I probably would be running 64 bit already!

Now I'm trying to repair my system from a Live usb stick (x86_64).

What I have done thus far:

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt
pacman --root /mnt -Syy
pacman --root /mnt -S base (just to be sure)
arch-chroot /mnt

But when I run arch-chroot, I get the following message:

/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries libreadline.so.7 wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

Can someone help me further, I already tried booting into the system but I get kernel panic at the boot!

Last edited by Ztjuh (2017-04-05 17:31:40)

Ztjuh

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Registered: 2011-05-30

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] Migrating between architectures

So I copy'ed all files from /lib/ to /mnt/lib/ now all errors are gone when I arch-chroot into /mnt.

I'm trying to mkinitcpio -p linux, but it's erroring out

==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
==> ERROR: module not found: `some_module`
(this 200 times or so)
==> WARNING: No modules were added to the image. This is probably not what you want.
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
==> WARNING: errors were encountered during the build. The image may not be complete.

Last edited by Ztjuh (2017-04-05 14:18:14)

Ztjuh

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Registered: 2011-05-30

Posts: 58

Re: [SOLVED] Migrating between architectures

After running:

# depmod -a <kernel name>

mkinitcpio -p linux, was working again!

ewaller

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Re: [SOLVED] Migrating between architectures

So, is it working in x64 now?  If so, be sure to mark the thread as solved.

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Ztjuh

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Registered: 2011-05-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Migrating between architectures

Yes it's working