[arch-general] glibc-2.22-4?

Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.talk at gmail.com
Mon Oct 12 09:25:54 UTC 2015


On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:02 AM, Jens Adam <jra at byte.cx> wrote:
> Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:17:53 -0700
> "Ian D. Scott" <ian at perebruin.com>:
>
>> I had a fun time fixing that by scp'ing a staically linked busybox over
>> using another system, decompressing the old package with that, using
>> machinectl shell to gain root access, and then running pacman with
>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to where I decompressed the package to restore it.  But
>> then, I didn't even have to reboot!
>>
>> Note to self (and others): keep a statically linked suid root copy of
>> busybox handy.
>
> Nice one! +1
>
> I got unlucky as well but as it's just my old, not-so-important
> notebook and I had the archiso USB key within arm's reach, I simply
> pulled the plug.
>
> Perfect opportunity to plug this old DynDNS host of mine:
>
> http://allan.broke-it.net
>
> SCNR ;-)
>
> --byte

I KNEW it =)

This sort of thing only seems to happen after I happen to reformat the
last archISO USB drive to copy a slightly larger file from one place
the another....


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