On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 06:53:21PM +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote: > 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. What's the output of `grep '^lib' /var/lib/pacman/local/*/files`? > > -jh > >