[arch-general] Still Glibc problems

[David Benfell]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 07/20/12 15:34, John Briggs wrote:
> General Discussion about Arch Linux <arch-general at archlinux.org>
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 03:41:08PM -0600, D. R. Evans wrote:
>>> pacman -Su
>>> 
>> 
>> Not OK:
>> 
>>> [root at shack n7dr]# pacman -Su :: Starting full system
>>> upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for
>>> inter-conflicts...
>>> 
>>> Targets (1): glibc-2.16.0-2
>>> 
>>> Total Installed Size:   33.94 MiB Net Upgrade Size:       0.83
>>> MiB
>>> 
>>> Proceed with installation? [Y/n] (1/1) checking package
>>> integrity
>>> [##########################################################################################]
>>> 100% (1/1) loading package files
>>> [##########################################################################################]
>>> 100% (1/1) checking for file conflicts
>>> [##########################################################################################]
>>> 100% error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) 
>>> glibc: /lib exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages
>>> were upgraded. [root at shack n7dr]#
> 
> After much investigation the only workaround for this problem I
> could discover and I have used on my three computers this week is:
> 
> system reboot			: updates system with new packages. This : step is
> critical or you could end up with : a borked system
> 
> # pacman -Sfu			: This forces the loading of glibc-2.16.0-2 : but
> errors out because /lib directory exists ignore errors			: on the
> system.
> 
> # /usr/lib/ld-2.16.0.so /bin/rm -r /lib
> 
> # /usr/lib/ld-2.16.0.so /bin/ln -s /usr/lib /lib
> 
> system reboot
> 
> DANGER: If the above procedure is not followed exactly you can bork
> your system and it will need a complete rebuild.  An other
> workaround is:
> 
> # system reboot
> 
> # pacman -Sfu
> 
> Ignore errors use a live CD/USB and boot Linux. # mkdir /archroot
> 
> # mount /dev/xxxx /archroot 	: where xxxx is the root partition
> 
> # cd /archroot
> 
> /archroot]# rm -r lib
> 
> /archroot]# ln -s usr/lib ./lib
> 
> system reboot
> 
> HTH
> 
> John
> 
> PS: I have not read the complete thread so I do not know if someone
> else has already offered these solutions. JEB
> 

You're using some tricks I didn't know about (there are, I'm sure,
lots in that category), but I don't see how this procedure addresses
the problem of other packages having files in /lib.


- -- 
David Benfell
benfell at parts-unknown.org


-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/
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=R7sP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----