System broke after major update

I did a pacman -Syu and now anything I try to do gives this error:
"error while loading shared libraries: lib(whatever).so.x: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"
I can log in and get a bash prompt but most commands don't work. I did try to do an ldconfig and it ran but didn't fix anything. Any help would be appreciated, I'm out of ideas.

bobbuck wrote:
Woo hoo! It's back.
I didn't have any network capability in the crippled state, but used that pacman.static program to load an old version of glibc from /var/cache/pacman.  Thanks for the help.  I never knew there was a static version of pacman.
How else would you expect to fix booboo's? Lol, I figure this static version out not so long ago also.

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  • System failure after recent update.

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    libtasn1-4.3-1-x86_64 104.8 KiB 6.02M/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
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    gnupg-2.1.2-2-x86_64 1840.7 KiB 4.14M/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
    iproute2-3.19.0-1-x86_64 510.1 KiB 4.66M/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
    kmod-20-1-x86_64 108.4 KiB 5.29M/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
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    patch-2.7.5-1-x86_64 79.2 KiB 4.55M/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
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    tcpdump-4.7.3-1-x86_64 317.4 KiB 1644K/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
    unzip-6.0-10-x86_64 125.2 KiB 5.32M/s 00:00 [#####################################################################] 100%
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    ( 3/20) upgrading e2fsprogs [#####################################################################] 100%
    ( 4/20) upgrading libtasn1 [#####################################################################] 100%
    ( 5/20) upgrading curl [#####################################################################] 100%
    ( 6/20) upgrading gnupg [#####################################################################] 100%
    ( 7/20) upgrading iproute2 [#####################################################################] 100%
    ( 8/20) upgrading kmod [#####################################################################] 100%
    ( 9/20) upgrading shadow [#####################################################################] 100%
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    -> Running build hook: [udev]
    -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
    -> Running build hook: [modconf]
    -> Running build hook: [block]
    -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
    -> Running build hook: [lvm2]
    -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
    -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
    -> Running build hook: [fsck]
    ==> Generating module dependencies
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    ==> Starting build: 3.19.2-1-ARCH
    -> Running build hook: [base]
    -> Running build hook: [udev]
    -> Running build hook: [modconf]
    -> Running build hook: [block]
    ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: aic94xx
    ==> WARNING: Possibly missing firmware for module: wd719x
    -> Running build hook: [encrypt]
    -> Running build hook: [lvm2]
    -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
    -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
    -> Running build hook: [fsck]
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    ==> Image generation successful
    (12/20) upgrading logrotate [#####################################################################] 100%
    (13/20) upgrading lua [#####################################################################] 100%
    (14/20) upgrading openssh [#####################################################################] 100%
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    (15/20) upgrading pacman-mirrorlist [#####################################################################] 100%
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    (17/20) upgrading tcpdump [#####################################################################] 100%
    (18/20) upgrading unzip [#####################################################################] 100%
    (19/20) upgrading vim-runtime [#####################################################################] 100%
    (20/20) upgrading vim-minimal [#####################################################################] 100%
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    Fairly I didn't set up anything in the tty, it's the same setting Arch boots from CD so I always thought it just takes it from default settings.
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    Could this cause the problem that there is no 3.19 kernel headers or are they not simultaneously updated with the kernel?
    As for the bugtrack link you gave, I don't know if it's related. In the comments they say its possible to load the module but then after a short connection time it went down, however in my case it does not get loaded at all as I see in journalctl -b
    Last edited by piwwo (2015-03-25 14:26:20)

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