On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:00:38AM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
Was just doing an update, and saw glibc-2.22-4. Updating that gave the following error:- [2015-10-12 07:43] [ALPM-SCRIPTLET] bash: loadlocale.c:130: _nl_intern_locale_data: Assertion `cnt < (sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_COLLATE) / sizeof (_nl_value_type_LC_COLLATE[0]))' failed.
This totally hosed my system, so I had to download the ISO and downgrade.
However I can't seem to find glibc-2.22-4 anymore, not even on www.archlinux.org. Did I have a compromised mirror, or was it simply a mistake in pushing? For reference, I provide my top-most mirror (generated from reflector months ago) in case that's useful:-
I had the same problem. I had a fun time fixing that by scp'ing a staically linked busybox over using another system, decompressing the old package with that, using machinectl shell to gain root access, and then running pacman with LD_LIBRARY_PATH to where I decompressed the package to restore it. But then, I didn't even have to reboot! Note to self (and others): keep a statically linked suid root copy of busybox handy.