[arch-general] glibc issues during first update in several months

[Erik Johnson]

After several months of not updating my home server, I decided to run
updates tonight. I still hadn't done the /usr/lib symlink move, so I
followed the guide on the wiki like I did for my other boxes and still
ended up borking my system. Think this is because I accidentally said "yes"
to upgrading pacman before the other packages. I ended up finding this
thread on the forum:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1167283

After booting with a rescue disc and untar-ing the package into my root
partition as that thread suggested, I was able to get booted back up and
continue with the upgrade. However, once I got to the point where I do the
final pacman -Su, I got a bunch of file conflicts:

error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
glibc: /lib exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/byteswap-16.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/epoll.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/eventfd.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/hwcap.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/inotify.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/poll2.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/signalfd.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/socket_type.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/sysctl.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/bits/timerfd.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/stdc-predef.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/sys/auxv.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/sys/elf.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/sys/vm86.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/include/uchar.h exists in filesystem
glibc: /usr/share/i18n/locales/mag_IN exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.


Is it safe to run the pacman -Su with --force since these files are all
owned by newer glibc on my other Arch boxes?

% for file in /usr/include/bits/byteswap-16.h /usr/include/bits/epoll.h
/usr/include/bits/eventfd.h /usr/include/bits/hwcap.h
/usr/include/bits/inotify.h /usr/include/bits/poll2.h
/usr/include/bits/signalfd.h /usr/include/bits/socket_type.h
/usr/include/bits/sysctl.h /usr/include/bits/timerfd.h
/usr/include/stdc-predef.h /usr/include/sys/auxv.h /usr/include/sys/elf.h
/usr/include/sys/vm86.h /usr/include/uchar.h
/usr/share/i18n/locales/mag_IN; do pacman -Qo $file; done
/usr/include/bits/byteswap-16.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/epoll.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/eventfd.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/hwcap.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/inotify.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/poll2.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/signalfd.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/socket_type.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/sysctl.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/bits/timerfd.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/stdc-predef.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/sys/auxv.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/sys/elf.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/sys/vm86.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/include/uchar.h is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4
/usr/share/i18n/locales/mag_IN is owned by glibc 2.16.0-4


-- 

-Erik

"For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to
persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."  -- Carl Sagan