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MariaSolOs

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Registered: 2023-11-25

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[SOLVED] Can't start wpa_supplicant after pacman update

Hello! Yesterday I was doing some housekeeping and ran "pacman -Syu" (I promise that I didn't run a partial update). Unfortunately my machine crashed during the update and turned off.
Since then I haven't been able to connect to wifi, because the wpa_supplicant service fails to start with "/usr/bin/wpa_supplicant: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libpcslite.so.1: file too short".

Things I've tried:
- Running "pacman -Syu" again. This fails with "core.db/extra.db failed to download", followed by "Could not resolve host" errors for all mirrors. Because wpa_supplicant isn't working, the reflector service is also down.
- Reinstalling wpa_supplicant. This fails too because of the issue with the mirrors.
- Following the steps from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … an_upgrade. I get stuck at step 4 because of mirror errors again

As you can probably tell, I'm a newbie here so I apologize in advance for my potential silly actions.

Last edited by MariaSolOs (2023-11-26 01:25:03)

MariaSolOs

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Registered: 2023-11-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't start wpa_supplicant after pacman update

Okay I tried https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman … an_upgrade again and I was able to connect to the network with iwctl.
I ran "pacman --sysroot /mnt -Syu" but "find /mnt/usr/lib -size 0" shows A LOT of broken packages. I've been trying to reinstall all packages with "pacman --sysroot /mnt -Qqn | pacman --sysroot /mnt -S -", but this fails with a bunch or "error: GPGME error: Invalid crypto engine" messages.

MariaSolOs

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't start wpa_supplicant after pacman update

I was able to fix this by resetting the pacman keyring and then reinstalling all packages. I had to force it with --overwrite=*, which isn't great but it was a desperate measure.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't start wpa_supplicant after pacman update

I had noticed this thread but I've never encountered that problem and didn't feel qualified to assist.

I'm very glad you solved the problem.

Welcome to archlinux forums.

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