[arch-general] libgcrypt.so.20 missing

[Mark Lee]

On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 14:19 -0500, Mark Lee wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 20:08 +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> > Am 13.01.2014 19:33, schrieb Mark E. Lee:
> > > However, I suggest an announcement on the website regarding this
> > > problem.
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > > I had three issues when trying to solve this problem:
> > > 1) the mirror I was using wasn't up to date (still had
> > > libgcrypt-1.5.3-1)
> > 
> > You see, that is impossible. The package database contains either both
> > the old pth and old libgcrypt, or both the new pth and new libgcrypt.
> > 
> > > 3) Failure to update libgcrypt before other packages resulted in a
> > > kernel that seemed to be hung at booting.
> > 
> > Sorry, I can't see how that would be related in any way.
> > 
> 
> Salutations,
> 
> pth is not related in this case. I've updated several more systems, this
> time libgcrypt first and found that I couldn't update subsequent
> packages. The machine failed to reboot by software and I had to hard
> reset. Upon resetting, I was left with a hung kernel again.
> 
> The reason why packages couldn't upgrade was because of gnupg which is
> needed for package signature verification from pacman. An updated gnupg
> points to libgcrypt.so.20 while the old one points to libgcrypt.so.11.
> Hence, what has to be done is gnupg must be updated before libgcrypt (or
> else signature verification fails). Libgcrypt must be updated before the
> system is rebooted or else gnupg fails.
> 
> Hence, an advisory should be sent out that gnupg should be updated
> before libgcrypt, and libgcrypt should be updated before the system's
> ever rebooted.
> 
> Regards,
> Mark

Salutations,

Actually scratch that, one should install gnupg 2.0.22-2 and libgcrypt
1.6.0-1 simultaneously (same pacman line) before trying to install other
things.

Regards,
Mark
-- 
Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com>