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codeRage

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Registered: 2011-02-20

Posts: 29

Last update breaks pacman

Hi all, I am relatively new to arch linux and this is my first problem with pacman.

Updating to version 3.5.0-1 seems to break pacman for me

$ pacman -Syy
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: liblzma.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I followed the instructions in the sticky post for repairing a broken pacman. I retrieved the 3.4 package from my cache, untarred and used the binary to try to reinstall libarchive, however I now see this error:

$ ./pacman -Sf libarchive
./pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libalpm.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have libalpm.so.6

I now see why that post was stickied.

codeRage

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Registered: 2011-02-20

Posts: 29

Re: Last update breaks pacman

Ok I got 3.4 fixed!

Just needed to copy libalpm.so.5 from package /lib directory *facepalm*

Now I can do my system update... wait a sec... this doesn't seem right

Remove (9): util-linux-ng-2.18-2  libusb1-1.0.8-1  libjpeg-8.0.2-1
            libdjvu-3.5.22-3  libelf-0.8.13-1  pycairo-1.8.8-1  libv4l-0.6.4-1
            mailx-8.1.1-7  xorg-res-utils-1.0.3-3

Total Removed Size:   10.65 MB

Targets (417): linux-api-headers-2.6.37-1  tzdata-2011d-1  glibc-2.13-4

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Total Download Size:    525.58 MB
Total Installed Size:   2285.73 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: Last update breaks pacman

For your first post it's hard to follow how you got there in the first place, but it sounds kind of like you did a partial update rather than running pacman -Syu, which as you discovered can cause problems. I'd also recommend against running testing until you're more comfortable with Arch. If you got pacman 3.5 by a method other than doing a full upgrade to testing, that also can be a source of things breaking.

As for your second post, what "doesn't seem right" ? That packages are being removed? At least some of those I recognize (and probably all of them) were replaced by other packages - which pacman should have asked you about.

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Last update breaks pacman

Is it similar to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113335 ?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Last update breaks pacman

Sorry for doubleposting, but if I just edit my previous post, people who subscribed won't be notified.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23325

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: Last update breaks pacman

Moving to testing...

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codeRage

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Registered: 2011-02-20

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Re: Last update breaks pacman

Sorry for posting in the wrong forum :-)

The "what doesn't seem right" would be the 500+ MB download and 2GB install

As for how I got here... I forget now, but I think it was something like

- pacman -Syy
- pacman -Su
- pacman-db-upgrade

Not necessarily in that order.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,354

Re: Last update breaks pacman

Sorry for posting in the wrong forum :-)

The "what doesn't seem right" would be the 500+ MB download and 2GB install

Compression

As for how I got here... I forget now, but I think it was something like

- pacman -Syy
- pacman -Su
- pacman-db-upgrade

Not necessarily in that order.

The first pacman -Su probably asked if you want to install pacman first before all the rest, didn't it?

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codeRage

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Registered: 2011-02-20

Posts: 29

Re: Last update breaks pacman

Well the first package I upgraded was pacman... BIG MISTAKE

I guess I needed to upgrade libarchive first maybe?

I don't remember if the update command asked to upgrade pacman or if I did it myself.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Last update breaks pacman

@codeRage you just hit a bug in pacman. 

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/23325

i suggest to disable testing, fully upate from the current core/extra/community and then enable testing

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Allan

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Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: Last update breaks pacman

i suggest to disable testing, fully upate from the current core/extra/community and then enable testing

In fact, I never enable [testing] for my first update after an install.   I like to know things work before I try and break them! 

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