System broke after major update

bobbuck · 2006-06-28 01:57:44

I did a pacman -Syu and now anything I try to do gives this error:

"error while loading shared libraries: lib(whatever).so.x: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

I can log in and get a bash prompt but most commands don't work. I did try to do an ldconfig and it ran but didn't fix anything. Any help would be appreciated, I'm out of ideas.

Gullible Jones · 2006-06-28 01:59:55

Evidently the mirror you were using was not synced...

Cerebral · 2006-06-28 02:37:50

try reupdating with pacman.static:

pacman.static -Syu

ralvez · 2006-06-28 02:39:00

try to log in to a console and issue a new pacman -Syu

_Gandalf_ · 2006-06-28 02:47:59

it seems you did pacman -Syu from some kind of "screen" session... anyway do

pacman.static -Sy glibc kernel-headers coreutils

if it still doesn't work try the above command with most "base" packages but it should work this way

if everything goes well, re-update your system again ( pacman -Syu )

bobbuck · 2006-06-28 03:04:29

Woo hoo! It's back.

I didn't have any network capability in the crippled state, but used that pacman.static program to load an old version of glibc from /var/cache/pacman. Thanks for the help. I never knew there was a static version of pacman.

twiistedkaos · 2006-06-28 04:38:16

bobbuck wrote:

Woo hoo! It's back.
I didn't have any network capability in the crippled state, but used that pacman.static program to load an old version of glibc from /var/cache/pacman. Thanks for the help. I never knew there was a static version of pacman.

How else would you expect to fix booboo's? Lol, I figure this static version out not so long ago also.

bobbuck · 2006-06-28 18:00:41

I thought you would have to boot from an Arch CD and invoke pacman with an alternate root or something. I found out later last night that I really didn't fix everything, but now I'm going to wait for the mirrors to settle and try another pacman -Syu. Some of my stuff wants the old glibc and some wants the new glibc.

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#1 2006-06-28 01:57:44

System broke after major update

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Re: System broke after major update

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