On 10/18/2009 06:30 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:
......That's when the lightbulb winked on and when the feeling of SHAME begin to settle in on my consciousness. Further investigation revealed that on 10/8 when I had updated my box and the new pacman package was installed, I used the pacman.conf from an earlier update of my x86_64 Arch server as a "go-by". It would seem that there was one occasion with the community repository that an 'x86_64' did not get replaced by and 'i686', thus 'the loose nut behind the keyboard' had installed some:
Good Linux debugging clue: when you're having a bunch of major problems that no one else is, it usually means you did something stupid that no one else did! :-) Seriously, though, I was reading all your messages going by, and kept thinking: there must be something weird he did to his box that's causing him all these problems, because Arch rarely gives me this much grief - especially with recent upgrades, as they've all gone very smoothly. Anyway, all's well that ends well, and glad to hear you solved the problem! DR