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

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:32:36PM +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote:
> 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
> 

See. Both libguestfs and multipath-tools-git own files in "/lib". You
should have dealt with that (i.e. rebuild these and put stuff in
"/usr/lib" instead of "/lib") before upgrading.