On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Nick Andryshak <nandryshak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, I'm in a bit of a sticky situation, which is the result of me being > an idiot and not knowing how to use Arch even after years of using it. > > I reinstalled ncurses with pacman, which I assume gave me ncurses 6 and > removed ncurses 5. But I didn't upgrade bash (or zsh), I guess is still > linked against 5, because when I try to login I get this error: > > $ ssh me@xxxxxxx > Last login: Mon Oct 26 08:56:59 2015 from x.x.x.x > -bash: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > Connection to xyz.com closed. > > I can't use sftp either. Oh, also, this is on a vps, so I don't have > physical access to the machine. > > Is there any way to fix this? > > Thanks, > > Nick > I don't think so -- not unless you had enough forethought to keep around an account with a different *default* shell. You'll have to contact whoever does have physical access. ... unfortunately it was only after this ncurses update that bash started explicitly requiring libncursesw.so=6-32 -- Eli Schwartz
