Arch Linux

zimbo

Member

From: Edinburgh, Scotland

Registered: 2005-07-31

Posts: 14

Another Update Problem

I have also experienced a number of problems when I updated recently. One of them is that glibc 2.4 is missing and some of my applications now won't run. Having looked through a few posts I saw that someone was recommended to run

pacman.static -Sy glibc kernel-headers coreutils

I would like to try this but I am now unable to run a terminal window in xfce4 and can't find a way of switching to a console window, Alt-F5 does nothing.

I log on through GDM and even from that screen I haven't been able to find a way of accessing a console screen.

Can anyone offer some assistance as I would prefer to try running pacman.static rather than doing a complete re-install.

Thanks

jaboua

Member

Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Another Update Problem

Control-Alt-F{1-6} from inside X
Alt-F7 will bring you back to X, as in console mode Alt-F{1-7} is enough.

zimbo

Member

From: Edinburgh, Scotland

Registered: 2005-07-31

Posts: 14

Re: Another Update Problem

Thanks for that jaboua.

When I tried running

pacman.static -Sy glibc kernel-headers coreutils

I got the following error

error: unable to lock pacman database
         if you're sure pacman is not already running, you
         can remove /tmp/pacman.lck

When I try removing this file I get the following message

rm: /lib/tls/libc.so.6: version 'GLIBC_2.4' not found (required by rm)

Anybody have any ideas what I need to do to re-install glibc or would it be better to do a complete re-install of Arch?