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I attempted to do a full system upgrade today, using
pacman -Syuuand it failed because libp11-kit.so.0 was reportedly already in the filesystem, so I ran it with --overwrite libp11-kit.so.0. This was a bad idea and resulted in kernel panic. However, I had backed up my system using rsync right before I attempted the upgrade, so I booted a live Arch USB and copied over my rsync backup to my root directory. I'm thinking this was probably another bad idea.
Now if I boot my Arch installation I get all the way to Gnome, but when I log in I get a "Oh No! Something has gone wrong" error. Back in my live Arch USB environment I arch-chroot and try to run pacman -Syuu again. But it won't install anything, instead reporting that files already exist for every package, and if I use --overwrite, it reports "error: could not create directory <dir>: File exists".
Any advice? Could it be possible to solve the Gnome error without needing to reinstall everything, or worse yet, reinstall Arch?
Thanks,
Matt
Last edited by mcsimenc (2020-10-24 01:17:41)
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Methinks you have broken the system quite awfully with that rsync...
If everything is reporting existence you could try a global overwrite, but I feel that a reinstall might be the way for this, since I can’t measure the damage done by that rsync...
You might also want to provide logs and info, like ‘pacman -Qkk’...
But considering the actual info, it seems the current state of the pacman database is...broken.
Also for the future don’t overuse ‘-Syuu’ unless you plan any downgrade because of a changed mirror.
Last edited by GaKu999 (2020-10-24 01:26:52)
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Thanks GaKu
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