Thanks Simon, this is what I ended up doing. My provider (DigitalOcean) mounted an Arch ISO for me, and allowed me to boot into it using the console access from their control panel. I was then by able to repair the installation by mounting my system and using pacman with the --root, --cache-dir and --config switches pointed at my install. Nick On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Simon Brulhart <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 26 oct. 2015 16:05, Nick Andryshak <nandryshak@xxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > > > > 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 > > Are you able to boot from a different system in your VPS's control panel? > If you have a 'network boot' or 'boot from ISO' feature, you could use it > and reinstall bash with pacstrap from there. > > Simon
