[SOLVED} Arch refuses to chroot due to missing libreadline.so.6

Question

I got a new laptop today and decided to put 64-bit Arch on a 240GB Kingston V300 SSD (with Windows 8 on the other partition - this laptop uses a legacy BIOS-MBR) using a USB stick as the install medium. When I install, everything works without incident until I go to chroot into the newly installed base system on the SSD. The following error occurs:
# arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The package readline 6.3.006-1 is currently installed and libreadline.so, libreadline.so.6 and libreadline.so.6.3 are all present within /usr/lib
I've tried installing Arch three times without any success, tried chrooting after installing, no dice. Tried different USB sticks, same issue and also tried the previous ISO from April 2015 and the same error comes up.
Not sure where to go from here.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by tghe-retford (2015-05-23 14:55:38)

Answer 1

Lone_Wolf wrote:tghe-retford, latest version of readline is      6.3.008-1 , is the mirror you selected up to date ?
https://www.archlinux.org/mirrors/status/
Finally managed to update it to 6.3.008-1, still gives the same error:
root@archiso ~ # pacman -Q readline
readline 6.3.008-1
root@archiso ~ #arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash
/bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libreadline.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory :(
127 root@archiso ~ #