[arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

[arnaud gaboury]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Ralf Mardorf
<ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jan 2013 11:25:16 +0100, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Am 23.01.2013 11:10, schrieb arnaud gaboury:
>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>
>> Then why do you use testing?
>>
>>  2- As a newbye,
>>>
>>
>> Then why do you use testing?
>>
>
> Perhaps the OP needs a clarification. Arch Linux is a rolling release, you
> usually get latest software versions for a regular Arch install. For my
> taste sometimes the versions come to the repository too fast (at the moment
> I take a rest from Arch Linux, but I still recommend to use it and will use
> it in the future myself again). It's not comparable to testing of "release
> distros", were for stable releases software sometimes is outdated for the
> needs of some users and developers.
>
> When you are experienced using testing is helpful, to test new packages,
> since this would help the community. As long as you're a novice, you very
> unlikely will benefit from using testing.
>
> pacman -Syuu ;)
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>

Thank you Ralf, but this is my first ever serious issue when upgrading, so
I will stick with dev enabled.

Following Allan instructions, on Archiso, I #pacman -Qk and no missing
files were returns.
Then  #mkinitcpio -p linux

I was thereafter happy to log into my system, with no kernel panic !
I decided to reinstall all packages from the "broken" upgrade.

Nevertheless, everything is not fine. Somme apps are broken, and do not
know why. I guess it is because of the /usr/lib64 issue.
For example, offlineimap and log are broken with no reasons, as they used
to work perfectly.

Allan, I think this upgrade is worth a news, as you mentioned it this
morning.

I am always scare each time I run #pacman -Syu, as I know it could be
tricky. I usually pay very much attention, and this particular upgrade was
my first real issue leaving me with a broken system.
I may think breaking/fixing our system is the only way we learn.

Thank you for your great work to the Arch community.

Regards.