On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:35:56 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: >On 07/07/2012 05:27 PM, fredbezies wrote: >> Well, Tom gave the answer. Boot on rescue-CD / rescue USB-key. >> >> Remove /lib. >> >> And create a symlink : ln -sf /usr/lib lib >> >> I think there will be a lot of problem for a lot of users when glibc >> 2.16.0-x will be uploaded on core. >> >> Well, I think I have to do this mistake. I *do* know that forcing >> wasn't a good idea :| >> >As I will need to do the update too, can someone explain briefly in >this list what shoule be done to avoid such a situation? > >TY in advance. > It may still fail error: extract: not overwriting dir with file lib error: problem occurred while upgrading glibc call to execv failed (No such file or directory) error: command failed to execute correctly error: could not commit transaction error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. At this the machine is toast. Hope magic-sysreq is enabled, and you have rescue disk ...