On 18-07-2012 08:09, Tom Gundersen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 3:11 AM, Andrew Hills <hills.as@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:
So if /lib is NOT a symlink, then all you should need is to delete all the files in /usr/lib that are not owned by any package. Then you should be able to upgrade.
And if /lib IS a symbolic link, delete it and let the glibc sync create it.
No. Then you'll lose your loader and can't do anything...
It's not in the wiki and I haven't seen it suggested but for really stubborn and possibly borked cases couldn't one boot from other media and tell pacman to update outside of the default path with --root, --cachedir, --config and --gpgdir? Or this a bad idea like using --force? -- Mauro Santos