On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Jens Adam <jra@byte.cx> wrote:
Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:17:53 -0700 "Ian D. Scott" <ian@perebruin.com>:
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.
Nice one! +1
I got unlucky as well but as it's just my old, not-so-important notebook and I had the archiso USB key within arm's reach, I simply pulled the plug.
Perfect opportunity to plug this old DynDNS host of mine:
SCNR ;-)
--byte
I KNEW it =) This sort of thing only seems to happen after I happen to reformat the last archISO USB drive to copy a slightly larger file from one place the another....