On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 08:32:36PM +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 21:15:50 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: > > >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`? > > > /var/lib/pacman/local/glibc-2.16.0-2/files:lib > /var/lib/pacman/local/glibc-2.16.0-2/files:lib64 > /var/lib/pacman/local/libguestfs-1.18.1-1/files:lib/ > /var/lib/pacman/local/libguestfs-1.18.1-1/files:lib/systemd/ > /var/lib/pacman/local/libguestfs-1.18.1-1/files:lib/systemd/system/ > /var/lib/pacman/local/libguestfs-1.18.1-1/files:lib/systemd/system/guestfsd.service > /var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/ > /var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/systemd/ > /var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/systemd/system/ > /var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/systemd/system/multipathd.service > /var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/udev/ > /var/lib/pacman/local/multipath-tools-git-20120526-1/files:lib/udev/kpartx_id > See. Both libguestfs and multipath-tools-git own files in "/lib". You should have dealt with that (i.e. rebuild these and put stuff in "/usr/lib" instead of "/lib") before upgrading.