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yossarianuk

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Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 103

(resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

Hi.

I have just updated my system, on rebooting X is broken, got various errors regarding libcrypto.0.9.8 ...

As I was actually as work (and needed to get to my desktop ASAP) I downgraded the following packages

openssl-0.9.8n-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  libarchive-2.8.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz  libfetch-2.30-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

- I can now get to X (to write this)

However at the same time most of my system is bust ....

I cant use wget/openssh, etc,etc

How do I fix this nightmare ?

cheers

Last edited by yossarianuk (2010-04-09 15:40:45)

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,967

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Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

Find an up to date mirror and run pacman -Syu again.

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yossarianuk

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Registered: 2007-05-02

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Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

I cant now!

In order to do my job I needed SSH, so downgraded again to 0.9.8 (after restarting X)

pacman is now broken - any ideas?

yossarianuk

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Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 103

Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

I have gone through this (from other post)

still getting pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8:

- what can I do - if I reboot I lose X (forever this time)

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cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg
# Remove openssl 1.0 (prepend / and filter directories)
tar -tf openssl-1.0.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz | sed "s@^@/@" | grep -vE "/$" | xargs rm -f
# Install openssl 0.9.8
tar -xf openssl-0.9.8n-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz -C /
# Upgrade everything
pacman -Suy
# Now pacman complains it doesn't have openssl 1.0
# Remove openssl 0.9.8 (prepend / and filter directories)
tar -tf openssl-0.9.8n-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz | sed "s@^@/@" | grep -vE "/$" | xargs rm -f
# Reinstall openssl 1.0
tar -xf openssl-1.0.0-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz -C /
# Final cleaning
rm /.PKGINFO
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bangkok_manouel

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Registered: 2005-02-07

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Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

edit/ nvm, you found the thread.

Last edited by bangkok_manouel (2010-04-09 15:27:07)

yossarianuk

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Registered: 2007-05-02

Posts: 103

Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

Hi.

Managed to sort it by doing the same for libfetch +  libarchive

Pacman now working !

cheers

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

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Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

Rule of thumb: only downgrade if you really know what you are doing; especially such basic libs.

And if you see a big update coming in but you need your computer to work with right now on the other hand, you should answer NO if pacman asks you to update. This is a general rule for Arch: if you have no time to deal with possible problems right now update later.

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yossarianuk

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Registered: 2007-05-02

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Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

Hi.

Thanks for the responses.

I have to say in 1 years use of arch I have only been bitten by a bad update twice, which considering the amount of updates is really not bad at all.

I am going to change to a more updated mirror!

I wouldn't normally downgrade at all but it was very urgent I got to my desktop at that time (boss waiting for me to show him something - I am the only person using arch too, everybody else has Ubuntu/Windows)

Cheers

Last edited by yossarianuk (2010-04-09 15:53:58)

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Registered: 2007-02-27

Posts: 174

Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

Could you please suggest a more up to date mirror by name?  I'm using mirrors.kernel.org.  Is that not up-to-date?

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wonder

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Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

Could you please suggest a more up to date mirror by name?  I'm using mirrors.kernel.org.  Is that not up-to-date?

kernel.org has more servers and based on your location, it can give you one near you. this is up to date:
ftp://mirror.giantix-server.de/archlinux/

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gtklocker

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Re: (resolved)libcrypto update - unable to start X - downgrade breaks all

I use the first Canadian

Anywayz, the update worked fine for me on 3 systems. I just only did:

pacman -Syyuu

pressed no, and gone on to manually install pacman

pacman -S pacman

and then update

pacman -Suu

and everything was alright!