On Saturday 07 July 2012 18:18:28 Jan Steffens wrote: > On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Jonathan Hudson <jh+arch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:00:06 +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote: > >>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 ... > >> > > Apologies, this was meant to be in reply to the "upgrade glibc last" > > advice. Two systems upgraded, two failures ... not good. > > You used --force (-f) again. http://i.imgur.com/5Zd1w.png I didn't ;) but it still failed. mc came to rescue as for creating the /lib symlink because # ln -s /usr/lib /lib bash: /bin/ln: No such file or directory Anyway, here's my pacman log [2012-07-07 19:11] Running 'pacman -Syu --ignore glibc' [2012-07-07 19:11] synchronizing package lists [2012-07-07 19:11] starting full system upgrade [2012-07-07 19:11] upgraded lib32-glibc (2.16.0-1 -> 2.16.0-2) [2012-07-07 19:11] Running 'pacman -Suy' [2012-07-07 19:11] synchronizing package lists [2012-07-07 19:11] starting full system upgrade [2012-07-07 19:11] error: problem occurred while upgrading glibc [2012-07-07 19:11] call to execv failed (No such file or directory) [2012-07-07 19:11] upgraded glibc (2.16.0-1 -> 2.16.0-2) [2012-07-07 19:20] Running 'pacman -Suy' [2012-07-07 19:20] synchronizing package lists [2012-07-07 19:20] starting full system upgrade [2012-07-07 19:21] Running 'pacman -S glibc' [2012-07-07 19:21] Generating locales... [2012-07-07 19:21] en_US.UTF-8... done [2012-07-07 19:21] en_US.ISO-8859-1... done [2012-07-07 19:21] Generation complete. [2012-07-07 19:21] upgraded glibc (2.16.0-2 -> 2.16.0-2) -- Arthur Titeica
