[arch-general] Can't login after upgrading ncurses but not bash (partial upgrade)

[Nick Andryshak]

Thanks Simon, this is what I ended up doing. My provider (DigitalOcean)
mounted an Arch ISO for me, and allowed me to boot into it using the
console access from their control panel. I was then by able to repair the
installation by mounting my system and using pacman with the --root,
--cache-dir and --config switches pointed at my install.

Nick

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Simon Brulhart <simon at brulhart.me> wrote:

> Le 26 oct. 2015 16:05, Nick Andryshak <nandryshak at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> > Hello, I'm in a bit of a sticky situation, which is the result of me
> being
> > an idiot and not knowing how to use Arch even after years of using it.
> >
> > I reinstalled ncurses with pacman, which I assume gave me ncurses 6 and
> > removed ncurses 5. But I didn't upgrade bash (or zsh), I guess is still
> > linked against 5, because when I try to login I get this error:
> >
> > $ ssh me at xyz.com
> > Last login: Mon Oct 26 08:56:59 2015 from x.x.x.x
> > -bash: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot
> open
> > shared object file: No such file or directory
> > Connection to xyz.com closed.
> >
> > I can't use sftp either. Oh, also, this is on a vps, so I don't have
> > physical access to the machine.
> >
> > Is there any way to fix this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nick
>
> Are you able to boot from a different system in your VPS's control panel?
> If you have a 'network boot' or 'boot from ISO' feature, you could use it
> and reinstall bash with pacstrap from there.
>
> Simon