[arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

[arnaud gaboury]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:07 PM, arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On Jan 23, 2013 12:04 PM, "Paul Gideon Dann" <pdgiddie at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wednesday 23 Jan 2013 10:10:17 arnaud gaboury wrote:
> > > Good morning  guys,
> > >
> > > Let me clarify a few things.
> > > 1- I didn't correctly understand the post from Allan about toolchain,
> thus
> > > my brocken update when #pacman - S filesystem
> > > 2- As a newbye,  I usually pay lots attention to upgrades and this is
> my
> > > first serious issue. It was late and was totally under heavy stress.
> This
> > > lead me to some mistakes I realized this morning.
> > > 3-on Archiso,  I mounted the wrong /usr (/dev/sdb4 when 3 was correct)
> + i
> > > didn't correctly #pacman - r with /mnt as target. So no surprise my
> system
> > > is borke.
> > > 4- back to Archiso this morning, I still can't #pacman - Syu filesystem
> > > glibc - r /mnt. Error: /mnt/usr/lib64 exist in filesystem.
> > >
> > > What am I supposed to do now?
> >
> > If you're really stuck, you can always create an empty directory, and
> extract
> > the glibc package into it, and manually update the files from there.
>  There's
> > probably an easier way, though.
> >
> > Some first thoughts: have you found out what is in the existing
> > /mnt/usr/lib64?  Is it a symlink, or a real directory?  What package
> owns the
> > files that are in there?
> >
> > Paul
>
> I finally managed to finish the upgrade on Archiso by removing
> /mnt/usr/lib64 after I checked #pacman - Qo for each file/symlink. They all
> were not owned by any package.
> Now booting to my system still give me a Kernel panic. Not syncing No init
> found. Same when using fallback.
> It sounds to me my initramfa is broken.
>
> How shall I fix this issue?
>

My issue maybe comes from the upgrade of glibc 2.17-2 from testing.
I have now /lib --> usr/lib and lib64/ ----> usr/lib.
 /usr/lib64 ----> lib

Is this the expected structure after the upgrade ?