On Sat, 7 Jul 2012 17:00:06 +0100, Jonathan Hudson wrote: >On Sat, 07 Jul 2012 17:35:56 +0200, Arno Gaboury wrote: > >>On 07/07/2012 05:27 PM, fredbezies wrote: >>> Well, Tom gave the answer. Boot on rescue-CD / rescue USB-key. >>> >>> Remove /lib. >>> >>> And create a symlink : ln -sf /usr/lib lib >>> >>> I think there will be a lot of problem for a lot of users when glibc >>> 2.16.0-x will be uploaded on core. >>> >>> Well, I think I have to do this mistake. I *do* know that forcing >>> wasn't a good idea :| >>> >>As I will need to do the update too, can someone explain briefly in >>this list what shoule be done to avoid such a situation? >> >>TY in advance. >> > >It may still fail > >error: extract: not overwriting dir with file lib >error: problem occurred while upgrading glibc >call to execv failed (No such file or directory) >error: command failed to execute correctly >error: could not commit transaction >error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted) >Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. > >At this the machine is toast. Hope magic-sysreq is enabled, and you >have rescue disk ...
Apologies, this was meant to be in reply to the "upgrade glibc last" advice. Two systems upgraded, two failures ... not good.
