[arch-general] Glibc 2.16.0-2 and /lib problem : the answer ;)

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 21:15:50 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote:

>On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 06:53:21PM +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 19:32:57 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote:
>> 
>> >On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 17:21:24 +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
>> >> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:18:28 +0200, Jan Steffens wrote:
>> >> >You used --force (-f) again. http://i.imgur.com/5Zd1w.png
>> >> 
>> >> 
>> >> I did NOT.
>> >
>> >
>> >Was /lib your current working dir when you ran pacman?
>> >Or did any other process have it open so it could not be removed?
>> >
>> >
>> >	Geert
>> >
>> 
>> Post event it's hard to tell. I previously removed obsolete
>> firmware, modules and udev directories, then ran the commands from a
>> previous thread (cut and paste, no --force).
>> 
>> # pacman -Syu --ignore glibc
>> # pacman -S glibc
>> 
>> The current directory was NOT /lib, and as the system is now pretty
>> much as loaded as prior, fuser /usr/lib (or /lib) shows no results.
>
>What's the output of `grep '^lib' /var/lib/pacman/local/*/files`?
>
/var/lib/pacman/local/glibc-2.16.0-2/files:lib
/var/lib/pacman/local/glibc-2.16.0-2/files:lib64
/var/lib/pacman/local/libguestfs-1.18.1-1/files:lib/
/var/lib/pacman/local/libguestfs-1.18.1-1/files:lib/systemd/
/var/lib/pacman/local/libguestfs-1.18.1-1/files:lib/systemd/system/
/var/lib/pacman/local/libguestfs-1.18.1-1/files:lib/systemd/system/guestfsd.service
/var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/
/var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/systemd/
/var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/systemd/system/
/var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service
/var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/udev/
/var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/udev/kpartx_id