Re: Can't login after upgrading ncurses but not bash (partial upgrade)

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On 26 October 2015 at 16:05, 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

$ ssh me@xxxxxxx su -c 'pacman -Syu --noconfirm ncurses bash zsh'

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