[arch-general] Still Glibc problems

D. R. Evans doc.evans at gmail.com
Fri Jul 20 17:25:42 EDT 2012


Tom Gundersen said the following at 07/20/2012 02:41 PM :
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 10:36 PM, D. R. Evans <doc.evans at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Norbert Zeh said the following at 07/20/2012 12:27 PM :
>>
>>> think the reason why you are having a much more serious issue is that it seems
>>> you haven't updated your system in a long time.  So now you're running into
>>
>> Approximately a month, I believe. Certainly not a whole lot longer. I don't
>> regard that as a long time, but perhaps in the arch world it is. But since the
>> box I'm upgrading often goes a couple of months without even being powered up,
>> it would be hard to upgrade more frequently.
> 
> No, a month is not a long time. I would have thought more than half a
> year (which is still not awfully long, but would mean you would be hit

Definitely nothing even close to that.

I do note that, as I mentioned, /var/run and /var/lock were symlinks, which I
think is a change from about six months ago.

I'm about to try the suggested sequence:

> pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem --ignore glibc
> pacman -S --force filesystem --ignore glibc
> pacman -Sd <everything you couldn't upgrade due to ignored glibc>
> pacman -Su

and we'll see what happens.

  Doc

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