[arch-general] Can't login after upgrading ncurses but not bash (partial upgrade)
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
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Nick Andryshak
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
Did you try to run pacman directly through ssh / ssh -t? cheers! mar77i
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 16:41:25 +0100
Martti Kühne
Did you try to run pacman directly through ssh / ssh -t?
cheers! mar77i
Pacman uses bash, so this will fail.
On 26 October 2015 at 16:05, Nick Andryshak
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
$ ssh me@xyz.com su -c 'pacman -Syu --noconfirm ncurses bash zsh' -- Chris Warrick https://chriswarrick.com/ PGP: 5EAAEA16
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Chris Warrick
$ ssh me@xyz.com su -c 'pacman -Syu --noconfirm ncurses bash zsh'
-- Chris Warrick https://chriswarrick.com/ PGP: 5EAAEA16
I do believe this would try to run $ su -c 'pacman -Syu --noconfirm ncurses bash zsh' using the default shell -- bash. Which is a problem... -- Eli Schwartz
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 11:05:50 -0400
Nick Andryshak
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
Do you have any kind of access to the machine's filesystem? You could build ncurses5-compat-libs from the AUR and manually drop the libs into /usr/lib Doug
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Chris Warrick
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Doug Newgard
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Eli Schwartz
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Martti Kühne
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Nick Andryshak