Something went wrong when upgrading glibc

benob · 2011-01-31 17:32:23

/lib/ld-2.13.so is a circular link to itself, and therefore I cannot execute any program. It just says "too many levels of symbolic links".
I still have a terminal and nautilus running. I was able to get ld-2.13.so from a different machine to a subdirectory through nfs.

How can I copy it to it's final location in /lib without access to a single executable. Any bash-internal command to do that?

I guess that if I reboot, the hole story is over.
How could this happen?

denisfalqueto · 2011-01-31 19:21:41

Use a livecd, mount your local partition and copy the file there.

benob · 2011-02-01 14:59:07

I am fixing it from a live cd. But the question remains: how could it happen ? The glibc package does not contain links for those files. However, when I try to install it from the live cd, it kills the /lib/ld*.so file from the live cd, even though it installs the correct files on the target partition. Anything to do with the install script? It only seems to executes ldconfig...

denisfalqueto · 2011-02-01 15:15:44

I don't know... maybe you could look in your pacman's log file. It could be a bug in pacman, in the init scripts or maybe your system was compromised in some way.

benob · 2011-02-01 15:21:54

The log says that I did "pacman -Syu" which upgraded a bunch of packages. It first upgraded glibc (2.12.2-2 -> 2.13-1), then it went on with a few packages and then upgraded glibc again (2.13-1 -> 2.13.-1). That's weird (or maybe just procedure). Anyways, I'll also look at compromission option.

denisfalqueto · 2011-02-01 15:26:08

The second "upgrade" of glibc is really strange. Do the times suggest that it was part of the first update? I mean, if the time difference between the two updates is very small, it could be a bug in pacman handling of dependencies and should be reported.

benob · 2011-02-01 15:34:12

My mistake. There was only one install. The second is when I tried to fix the system this morning.

http://pastebin.com/emRtEAxs

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#1 2011-01-31 17:32:23

Something went wrong when upgrading glibc

#2 2011-01-31 19:21:41

Re: Something went wrong when upgrading glibc

#3 2011-02-01 14:59:07

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#4 2011-02-01 15:15:44

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#5 2011-02-01 15:21:54

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#6 2011-02-01 15:26:08

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#7 2011-02-01 15:34:12

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