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javajunky

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Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 39

Eek latest pacman -Syu has broken my Arch64!

I'm not *sure* but when I came in to work this morning, I did the usual pacman -Syu that I do each morning. (pacman.log exerpt below)

binutils (2.17-1 -> 2.17-2)
coreutils (6.4-2 -> 6.5-1.1)
libcups (1.2.5-1.1 -> 1.2.7-1)
cups (1.2.5-1 -> 1.2.7-1)
gcc (4.1.1-3 -> 4.1.2-1)
warning: extracting /etc/locale.gen as /etc/locale.gen.pacnew
glibc (2.4-4 -> 2.5-2)
pciutils (2.2.4-1 -> 2.2.4-2)

And thought nothing of it, until I tried to use 'firefox' later on in the day, now 'firefox' can't be found  (-bash: firefox: command not found )
But Pacman still thinks its there:
[root@garfield bin]# pacman -Q firefox
firefox 2.0-1
Which is err odd...and far far worse than that :
[root@garfield bin]# cd /usr/bin
[root@garfield bin]# ls
Segmentation fault
[root@garfield bin]#

I'm not saying it *was* the upgrade, but I've done nothing else this morning that could have caused this, eek!!

Any ideas gratefully received!

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Eek latest pacman -Syu has broken my Arch64!

try downgrading coreutils to 6.4-2. pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/coreutils-6.4-2.pkg.tar.gz

EDIT:
look here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=209774#209774

javajunky

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Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 39

Re: Eek latest pacman -Syu has broken my Arch64!

That works perfectly! ls works again, and firefox is 'firing' up again, 'woot'.  Next question, err how'd that happen then!

T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: Eek latest pacman -Syu has broken my Arch64!

6.5-1 broke the su command. The fix for it in 6.5-1.1 then broke ls. Keep an eye on the link I gave you and/or my announcement at the top of the forums.

javajunky

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Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 39

Re: Eek latest pacman -Syu has broken my Arch64!

Thanks, I had spotted that link with-regards to su, hadn't realised that was ls as well, sorry