[Solved] Pacman no longer works at all!!

Question

Ok, did some searches and found a few hits, but not really sure how to fix this one. Here are 2 links I found.
links:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … -libraries
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1232052
In my case, I dont think any pacman option/command works. Cant run 'pacman' with ANY options or with no options??
error:
$ pacman
pacman: error while loading shared libraries: libcurl.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I guess I was updating something using curl libraries, but not sure whats the best way to fix this.
ldconfig -p | grep curl
Returns nothing.
Not sure if this was the right thing to do but I also tried this from the first link.
echo /usr/local/lib | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/local.conf
Here is another one:
$ sudo ldd $(which pacman)
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff4a3ff000)
libalpm.so.7 => /usr/lib/libalpm.so.7 (0x00007f16be091000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f16bdce4000)
libcurl.so.4 => not found
libgpgme.so.11 => /usr/lib/libgpgme.so.11 (0x00007f16bdab1000)
libarchive.so.12 => /usr/lib/libarchive.so.12 (0x00007f16bd81c000)
libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0x00007f16bd412000)
/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f16be2bd000)
libassuan.so.0 => /usr/lib/libassuan.so.0 (0x00007f16bd202000)
libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 (0x00007f16bcfff000)
libacl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libacl.so.1 (0x00007f16bcdf6000)
libattr.so.1 => /usr/lib/libattr.so.1 (0x00007f16bcbf1000)
libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x00007f16bc9c7000)
liblzma.so.5 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f16bc7a4000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f16bc594000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f16bc37e000)
libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f16bc17a000)
libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f16bbf5e000)
So looks like thats the issue .. libcurl.so.4 => not found ...
I dont have strace installed and not sure if I need it to continue....I did a quick search and dont see a libcurl installed, so either i need to install it or remove that reference too it? LOL
Any suggestions?
Last edited by banshee28 (2013-02-19 03:28:09)

Answer 1

Army wrote:Show us what you did with pacman which caused this = show us your /var/log/pacman.log. Do you use testing repos?
Never use testing repos.
I dont see anything for libcurl in that log, but I did see this recently for curl. Perhaps this is the culprit. Pacman -Sc ??
[2013-02-07 03:05] Running 'pacman -Sc --noconfirm'
[2013-02-08 03:05] Running 'pacman -Sc --noconfirm'
[2013-02-08 17:19] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2013-02-08 17:19] synchronizing package lists
[2013-02-08 17:19] starting full system upgrade
[2013-02-08 17:19] Running 'pacman -S -u'
[2013-02-08 17:19] starting full system upgrade
[2013-02-08 17:21] upgraded perl (5.16.2-2 -> 5.16.2-3)
[2013-02-08 17:21] upgraded openssl (1.0.1.c-1 -> 1.0.1.d-1)
***** [2013-02-08 17:21] upgraded curl (7.28.1-1 -> 7.29.0-1) *******
Full log file:
[2012-09-22 09:01] installed filesystem (2012.8-1)
[2013-02-11 20:12] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[2013-02-11 20:12] upgraded profile-sync-daemon (5.13-1 -> 5.16-1)
[2013-02-12 03:05] Running 'pacman -Sc --noconfirm'
[2013-02-12 18:19] Running 'pacman -Sy'
[2013-02-12 18:19] synchronizing package lists
[2013-02-12 18:19] starting full system upgrade
[2013-02-12 18:19] Running 'pacman -S -u'
[2013-02-12 18:19] starting full system upgrade
[2013-02-12 18:20] upgraded device-mapper (2.02.98-1 -> 2.02.98-3)
[2013-02-12 18:20] upgraded cryptsetup (1.5.1-1 -> 1.6.0-1)
Last edited by banshee28 (2013-02-19 03:29:37)