On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 19:32:57 +0200, Geert Hendrickx wrote: >On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 17:21:24 +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote: >> On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 18:18:28 +0200, Jan Steffens wrote: >> >You used --force (-f) again. http://i.imgur.com/5Zd1w.png >> >> >> I did NOT. > > >Was /lib your current working dir when you ran pacman? >Or did any other process have it open so it could not be removed? > > > Geert > Post event it's hard to tell. I previously removed obsolete firmware, modules and udev directories, then ran the commands from a previous thread (cut and paste, no --force). # pacman -Syu --ignore glibc # pacman -S glibc The current directory was NOT /lib, and as the system is now pretty much as loaded as prior, fuser /usr/lib (or /lib) shows no results. -jh