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.ev...@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 -- Web: http://www.sff.net/people/N7DR
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