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

[Erik Johnson]

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 12:49 AM, David Rosenstrauch <darose at darose.net>wrote:

> On 10/02/2012 01:30 AM, Erik Johnson wrote:
>
>> 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<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.
>>
>
> I recently ran into similar issues resulting from my taking care of this
> upgrade much later than when it was released.
>
> FYI, though, for future reference:  there's an alternative (and an
> arguably more "correct" one) to untar-ing a package into your root
> directory to fix issues like this.  If you boot into an Arch Linux
> installation disk, you can then use the copy of pacman installed on that
> disk to "properly" install packages onto your hard disk.  You just have to
> use the "-r" (change root) parm of pacman to do it.  So for example, you
> can do things like this (e.g., if the root file system of your hard disk is
> mounted at /mnt/temp):
>
> $ pacman -r /mnt/temp -U /mnt/temp/var/cache/pacman/**
> pkg/<some-package>.pkg.xz
>
> Doing things this way will make sure that the pacman database on your hard
> disk gets updated correctly when you install the packages to fix the
> breakage.
>
> HTH,
>
> DR
>
>

Yeah... I got everything sorted, by the way, so no worries.

-- 

-Erik

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