Different /bin /sbin /usr/sbin update issue

Someone on IRC just brought this one up. He needs to update a VPS image from 2012.07; it's past the lib->usr/lib update. It needs to update glibc, but glibc currently requires filesystem >= 2013.01. Since filesystem is ignored, this is a problem. Only suggestion I could come up with is to use the ARM to update to a version in Feb or Mar, then update from there. Anyone have a better idea?

Okay, I give no guarantees, but this may or may not work:
pacman -Su -d --ignore filesystem
This will leave the system in a somewhat unusable state, because the newer glibc needs the /lib symlink in filesystem. In particular, most (if not all) post_install scripts will fail during this update, so look out for manually fixing breakage (I omitted the --ignore bash, since the glibc update will break bash anyway) - especially your initramfs will need to be regenerated once you are finished. You can then run
/usr/lib/ld-2.17.so pacman -Su
to upgrade filesystem. Beware that calling the dynamic loader is the only way to run any binaries in this situation.
The suggested solution of upgrading filesystem to 2013.03.something seems cleaner than mine in any case.
Last edited by brain0 (2013-06-04 14:08:39)

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[SOLVED] bin / sbin update

I have followed the steps on the arch front page, updated & get no error messages...
Am I good to go ?
Are there any additional checks I can do / precautions I can make, before rebooting ?
Important docs are backed up, just in case.
Last edited by flipper T (2013-06-03 12:43:46)

aphirst wrote:I followed the instructions in the news post to the letter, and everything seemed fine; but then on reboot I got kicked to a recovery shell, and /bin only contained the bare minimum of files (and no pacman...)
I think you should open a separate thread, if you need help.
If you do, please provide some more info.

[SOLVED]Symlinking /bin, /sbin to /usr/bin for system update

Hello everyone,
Reading this has exposed a basic gap in my knowledge of linux ownership:
https://www.archlinux.org/news/binaries … ervention/
How is it that a directory /bin can be owned by a package contained within it, as is implied by the query option "-o" to pacman in step 1 of the above linked page?:
$ pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | pacman -Qm -
Incidentally, I get no output from this command or the others in steps 1 and 3, so it seems from reading the following that there are no packages causing problems (I'm pretty sure I don't have any packages from unofficial repositories):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=164505
Secondly, (and I may be completely wrong here), is it really as simple as this to move all the binaries from /bin and /sbin into /usr/bin, then create symbolic links in the root directory pointing to this new location?:
cd /
rsync -a /bin/ /usr/bin/
rsync -a /sbin/ /usr/bin/
ln -s /bin /usr/bin
ln -s /sbin /usr/bin
rm -R /bin /sbin
I use rsync -a here to preserve permissions, although I've heard that I could use tar. Is there a safer/more succinct way of doing this? And finally, I delete the original directories and their
contents last. If I were to delete them AFTER copying their contents to /usr/bin but BEFORE creating the symlinks, I would be in serious trouble, wouldn't I?
Last edited by Amp (2013-06-04 20:10:26)

If you dont have any packages that is in the wrong place you just have to follow the instructions from the front page to upgrade your system.
# pacman -Syu --ignore filesystem,bash
# pacman -S bash
# pacman -Su
No need for manual moving, deleting and symlinking.

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I recognized my Mac's problem is user-indepedent. Therefore a "global process" must have been the trouble maker.
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What about /usr/local/bin + sbin merge?

With the merge of /bin and /lib folders that just happened I was curious if there was a particular reason to keep both /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin as actual folders in the filesystem, instead of making /usr/local/sbin a symlink to /usr/local/bin.

arojas wrote:If you delete it, it will be recreated with every update of the filesystem package anyway
This.
Jindur wrote:So I guess that folder is actually not under my complete control
The contents is*, pacman (actually, the filesystem package) just creates it for you since 99.9% of people either need it or don't care.
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Last edited by fukawi2 (2013-06-04 23:07:23)

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Hallo
Ich bin ein korrekter Mensch.
Sie sehen in der Anlage, dieser Mail, das ich das Produkt ehrlich gekauft habe.
Ich verwende nur original Software.
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Betreff: Update von Acrobat 8.0 auf 8.3
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How did you purchase? AA8 has not been available for almost 8 yrs or so. The only current version available from Adobe is 11 and you can not upgrade from 7 to 11, but have to buy the full product.
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i'm having a really big problem with my macbook....??
so many files are shown in my hard drive like (bin, cores, usr..... ect)????
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