On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Nick Andryshak <nandryshak@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello, I'm in a bit of a sticky situation, which is the result of me being an idiot and not knowing how to use Arch even after years of using it.
I reinstalled ncurses with pacman, which I assume gave me ncurses 6 and removed ncurses 5. But I didn't upgrade bash (or zsh), I guess is still linked against 5, because when I try to login I get this error:
$ ssh me@xyz.com Last login: Mon Oct 26 08:56:59 2015 from x.x.x.x -bash: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Connection to xyz.com closed.
I can't use sftp either. Oh, also, this is on a vps, so I don't have physical access to the machine.
Is there any way to fix this?
Thanks,
Nick
I don't think so -- not unless you had enough forethought to keep around an account with a different *default* shell. You'll have to contact whoever does have physical access. ... unfortunately it was only after this ncurses update that bash started explicitly requiring libncursesw.so=6-32 -- Eli Schwartz