[SOLVED] Stuck in fresh install: problems after succesfull glibc upgra

Question

Hello everyone. I am stuck in the installation after upgrading glibc.
I am installing from the Core Image ISO.
As it says in the Developer Wiki the first thing I did after installing the system is:
$ pacman -U http://pkgbuild.com/~allan/glibc-2.16.0 … pkg.tar.xz
In that moment appaered some errors related to tzselect and 2 other files which I dont remember but I deleted them and then it let me install.
By doing that it let me upgrade pacman, so I upgraded pacman and created de signature database as it should be.
Then I did a 'pacman -S filesystem --force' and 'rm /etc/profile.d/locale.sh' to solve future known errors related to system upgrade and rebooted.
In that moment everything was OK, but then I tried 'pacman -Syu'
Here's where I am stuck. Pacman says that /lib still exists on the filesystem.
As it says on the developer wiki i tried 'find /lib -exec pacman -Qo -- {} +' to find out which packages where owing /lib and the list it displayed was HUGE, really...
I removed the /lib/modules/3.0-ARCH since no other files where in that folder and tried again 'pacman -Syu' but keep getting the '/lib exists on filesystem' error.
What should I do to solve this??
The list of files in /lib is this:
device-mapper            libcap.so.2                         libext2fs.so.2.4       libmount.so.1.1.0       libpam_misc.so         libshadow.so
firmware                 libcap.so.2.22                      libgcrypt.so           libm.so.6               libpam_misc.so.0       libshadow.so.0
initcpio                 libcidn-2.16.so                     libgcrypt.so.11        libncursesw.so.5        libpam_misc.so.0.82.0  libshadow.so.0.0.0
ld-2.16.so               libcidn.so.1                        libgcrypt.so.11.7.0    libncursesw.so.5.9      libpam.so              libss.so.2
ld-linux-x86-64.so.2     libcom_err.so.2                     libgpg-error.so        libnsl-2.16.so          libpam.so.0            libss.so.2.0
libacl.so                libcom_err.so.2.1                   libgpg-error.so.0      libnsl.so.1             libpam.so.0.83.1       libsysfs.so.2
libacl.so.1              libcrypt-2.16.so                    libgpg-error.so.0.8.0  libnss_compat-2.16.so   libpcprofile.so        libsysfs.so.2.0.1
libacl.so.1.1.0          libcryptsetup.so                    libgudev-1.0.so.0      libnss_compat.so.2      libpcre.so.0           libthread_db-1.0.so
libanl-2.16.so           libcryptsetup.so.1                  libgudev-1.0.so.0.1.0  libnss_db-2.16.so       libpcre.so.0.0.1       libthread_db.so.1
libanl.so.1              libcryptsetup.so.1.2.0              libhandle.a            libnss_db.so.2          libpopt.so             libudev.so.0
libattr.so               libcrypt.so.1                       libhandle.so           libnss_dns-2.16.so      libpopt.so.0           libudev.so.0.12.0
libattr.so.1             libc.so.6                           libhandle.so.1         libnss_dns.so.2         libpopt.so.0.0.0       libutil-2.16.so
libattr.so.1.1.0         libdevmapper-event-lvm2mirror.so    libhandle.so.1.0.3     libnss_files-2.16.so    libproc-3.2.8.so       libutil.so.1
libblkid.so.1            libdevmapper-event-lvm2raid.so      libhistory.so          libnss_files.so.2       libpthread-2.16.so     libuuid.so.1
libblkid.so.1.1.0        libdevmapper-event-lvm2snapshot.so  libhistory.so.6        libnss_hesiod-2.16.so   libpthread.so.0        libuuid.so.1.3.0
libBrokenLocale-2.16.so  libdevmapper-event-lvm2.so.2.02     libhistory.so.6.2      libnss_hesiod.so.2      libreadline.so         modprobe.d
libBrokenLocale.so.1     libdevmapper-event.so.1.02          libkeyutils.so.1       libnss_nis-2.16.so      libreadline.so.6       modules
libbz2.so                libdevmapper.so.1.02                libkeyutils.so.1.4     libnss_nisplus-2.16.so  libreadline.so.6.2     security
libbz2.so.1              libdl-2.16.so                       liblvm2app.so.2.2      libnss_nisplus.so.2     libresolv-2.16.so      systemd
libbz2.so.1.0            libdl.so.2                          liblvm2cmd.so.2.02     libnss_nis.so.2         libresolv.so.2         udev
libbz2.so.1.0.6          libe2p.so.2                         libm-2.16.so           libpamc.so              librt-2.16.so
libc-2.16.so             libe2p.so.2.3                       libmemusage.so         libpamc.so.0            librt.so.1
libcap.so                libext2fs.so.2                      libmount.so.1          libpamc.so.0.82.1       libSegFault.so
Thanks everyone who will answer this post.
Last edited by grego1422 (2012-07-16 19:35:16)

Answer 1

It seems that deleting the folder inside /lib/modules broke something since the system was quite unstable after rebooting...
Whatever, I'm sorry I can't continue to solve my last situation.
I have just made a new install and followed the instructions at Allan McRae's blog.
pacman -Sy
rm -rf /var/run /var/lock && pacman -Sf filesystem
pacman -S tzdata
pacman -U http://pkgbuild.com/~allan/glibc-2.16.0 … pkg.tar.xz
rm /etc/profile.d/locale.sh
pacman -Su --ignore glibc
pacman -Su
I'm quite near the success, now I'm stuck at generating the signature database.
Before the last 'pacman -Su' I'm forced to create the trusted signature database by pacman, when I run 'pacman-key --init' it seems to hang, I left it there generating the database for about half an hour in my first atempt and about an hour in my second atempt and it never finished. But in my previous installation (2 hours ago) it was done in 5 minutes.
Is there another way to generate the signature database? or anyone knows what is happening? Thank you.
Last edited by grego1422 (2012-07-16 16:27:55)