Sun, 11 Oct 2015 19:17:53 -0700
"Ian D. Scott" <i...@perebruin.com>:

> I had a fun time fixing that by scp'ing a staically linked busybox over
> using another system, decompressing the old package with that, using
> machinectl shell to gain root access, and then running pacman with
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH to where I decompressed the package to restore it.  But
> then, I didn't even have to reboot!
> 
> Note to self (and others): keep a statically linked suid root copy of
> busybox handy.

Nice one! +1

I got unlucky as well but as it's just my old, not-so-important
notebook and I had the archiso USB key within arm's reach, I simply
pulled the plug.

Perfect opportunity to plug this old DynDNS host of mine:

http://allan.broke-it.net

SCNR ;-)

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