[arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

[Allan McRae]

On 24/01/13 00:29, arnaud gaboury wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 24/01/13 00:08, arnaud gaboury wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 ?
>>>
>>
>> Yes
>>
>> Give the complete package list of what was upgraded.
>>
>> Allan
>>
> 
> Allan,
> 
> thank your help. Please find all the pacman logs in chronoligal order with
> some explainations.
> Sorry for the long logs
> To summarize, I first upgraded on m system.
> 
> [2013-01-22 19:38] kalu: synchronized database testing
> [2013-01-22 19:38] kalu: synchronized database core
> [2013-01-22 19:38] kalu: synchronized database extra
> [2013-01-22 19:38] kalu: synchronized database community-testing
> [2013-01-22 19:38] kalu: synchronized database community
> [2013-01-22 19:38] kalu: synchronized database multilib-testing
> [2013-01-22 19:38] kalu: synchronized database multilib
> [2013-01-22 19:38] kalu: starting sysupgrade...
> [2013-01-22 19:40] kalu: Failed to commit sysupgrade transaction:
> conflicting files
> [2013-01-22 19:43] Running 'pacman -Syu'
> [2013-01-22 19:43] synchronizing package lists
> [2013-01-22 19:43] starting full system upgrade
> [2013-01-22 20:04] Running 'pacman -S bash'
> [2013-01-22 20:05] Running 'pacman -S filesystem'
> [2013-01-22 20:05] Running 'pacman -S glibc'
> [2013-01-22 20:05] call to execv failed (No such file or directory)
> [2013-01-22 20:05] upgraded glibc (2.17-1 -> 2.17-2)
> 

So there was a file conflict - not sure what, but for next time, just
deal with that...

> 
> The upgrade went bad, and I made the mistake to #pacman -S glibc. It broke
> immediatly my filesystem.
> Then I log out and boot with Ubuntu Live CD. I chroot and tried many things
> with no sucess. My bad, as I realized this morning I mounted the wrong
> /dev/sdb partition as /usr .
> I then  boot my system on fallback. Here again, I tried to finish the
> upgrade with no sucess.
> I then boot with Archiso, and couldn-t finish as execv was not found.
> I then downgraded glibc and filesystem, and tried again to upgrade
> correctly, with no sucess.
> 


<snip>

That is a lot of going around in circles...

Make sure everything is updated, then run "pacman -Qk -r /mnt" to check
all the files are ready.

It seems you are using the Arch install CD, so run "arch-chroot /mnt"
then "mkinitcpio -p linux".

Then try booting.   We need some details of what is happening when it
fails to give any more help.

Allan