Updated the wrong Architecture....[solved]

efourseven · 2011-03-18 21:04:43

Hello, I am apparently retarded, but I was having a lot of problems today with pacman.

I ended up updated for the wrong architecture, I was supposed to update for i686 and I updated for x86_64.

Now I can't even use commands in the terminal because I just get a bash error saying I cannot execute the binary files. I cannot even open a terminal anymore actually after I closed it.

Am I screwed? Any help would be appreciated, but it sure seems like I am.

Last edited by efourseven (2011-03-19 01:21:40)

lifeafter2am · 2011-03-18 22:20:12

You might be able to boot into a live distro and replace some of the binaries by hand. At least as many of them as are needed to get bash working correctly again. Truthfully, I don't know if this would work or not. I am interested to hear if someone else has a solution to this.

Good luck!

efourseven · 2011-03-18 22:28:23

Thanks man, That's what I plan to try next, I just wanted to see if anyone had any tips before I reboot and go for it.

I have my /home directory on a separate drive, so I am thinking I might just go for a fresh install. I will try to get in somehow from the live cd and fix my pacman.conf file and try to upgrade again to the correct architecture (thats the only thing I can think of)... but I have no idea how that will work out.

Ramses de Norre · 2011-03-18 23:14:23

I think you should be able to run pacman with the --root option from a live disc and just reinstall all the wrongly updated packages.

efourseven · 2011-03-18 23:21:47

I will try that too, thanks

efourseven · 2011-03-19 01:20:47

Well, turns out I just went with a fresh install. No idea how to go about fixing that mess. That's what I get for being a douchebag....

lifeafter2am · 2011-03-19 01:27:51

efourseven wrote:

Well, turns out I just went with a fresh install. No idea how to go about fixing that mess. That's what I get for being a douchebag....

At least you were smart and put your /home on a separate partition.

efourseven · 2011-03-19 04:29:33

Yes I have to pat myself on the back for that one... but now I have run into another problem I can't seem to remember how I make it my new home directory again... I don't remember the exact fstab settings and I am getting "Xauth: timeout in locking authority file" errors when trying to startx from my old home directry.... sounds like permission problems.

I'll try and work with it a little more.

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Updated the wrong Architecture....[solved]

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