[arch-general] broken system after today upgrade

[Leonid Isaev]

On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 10:21:12 +0100
arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 distros", were for stable releases software sometimes is outdated for the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.

There is always a reason... but it's not /usr/lib64.

> 
> 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.



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