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NedRyerson

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Registered: 2010-04-30

Posts: 3

coreutils missing after upgrading to coreutils-8.5.1?

I just ran a pacman -Syu with the following results:
[2010-04-30 04:23] synchronizing package lists                                                     
[2010-04-30 04:23] starting full system upgrade                                                     
[2010-04-30 04:23] upgraded coreutils (8.4-3 -> 8.5-1)                                             
[2010-04-30 04:23] upgraded inetutils (1.7-2 -> 1.7-3)                                             
[2010-04-30 04:29] synchronizing package lists                                                     

I did not get any errors, but immediately after the upgrade I was not able to run ls:
-bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory

or cat:
-bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory

or a number of other utilities (all of which I assuming are part of coreutils?)

and when I log in I get:
-bash: /bin/ls: No such file or directory                                                           
-bash: /usr/bin/tty: No such file or directory

Missing these utilities, I'm having trouble trying to find out exactly what happened, or what I need to do to fix this. Can anyone point me in the right direction on where I can find out what I need to do to get this fixed?

I have another installation that is almost identical in the setup aside from it not having apache, and the fact that it is i686 instead of x86_64. I ran the same pacman -Syu on that machine, and the same two packages were updated without any problems.

Thanks in advance for any help!

chakra-user

Member

Registered: 2010-03-07

Posts: 74

Re: coreutils missing after upgrading to coreutils-8.5.1?

works fine for me. check if the diskspace is full? Try running pacman -Rsn and update again.

NedRyerson

Member

Registered: 2010-04-30

Posts: 3

Re: coreutils missing after upgrading to coreutils-8.5.1?

Disk space looks fine to me. I was able to fix the issue by re-installing the previous version:
pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/coreutils-8.4-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

I then tried to do another pacman -Syu and it upgraded to coreutils-8.5.1, but it was broken again. I'm not getting any errors at all during the upgrade, and like I said my other machine seemed to upgrade just fine so I'm not sure what the problem is here, and I haven't encountered anything like this before so I'm not sure exactly how to troubleshoot the issue.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: coreutils missing after upgrading to coreutils-8.5.1?

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=96258

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,362

Re: coreutils missing after upgrading to coreutils-8.5.1?

Try re-downloading the pkg.tar.xz?

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NedRyerson

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Registered: 2010-04-30

Posts: 3

Re: coreutils missing after upgrading to coreutils-8.5.1?

Unfortunately, I was never able to get this solved. At one point I actually tried re-installing the glibc package with 'pacman -S glibc' but that caused even more issues. I'm not sure how things got into that state, but at that point I ended up re-installing and starting fresh. Everything looks to be working great right now, and since the other system that I had that was basically identical to the problem one never had any issues I'm inclined to think it was something I did along the way that got things into a messed up state in the first place.

I just wanted to give an update and thank everyone for the help.