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FS#35635 - pacman -Syu deleted /bin/
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Opened by q (q) - Tuesday, 04 June 2013, 09:03 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 04 June 2013, 09:32 GMT
Opened by q (q) - Tuesday, 04 June 2013, 09:03 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Tuesday, 04 June 2013, 09:32 GMT
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DetailsToday I did the daily # pacman -Syu, upgrading to to the latest versions of bash, zsh, wpa_supplicant and so forth. Pretty sure coreutils was also listed. One of these packages, I'm not entirely sure which one, conflicted with /bin/ and pacman's solution on update was to silently delete it. After I did the update I could no longer open terminals or su in existing ones. Trying to reboot quickly revealed that /bin/ had been deleted.
I don't know exactly which package caused this or in which logfile to seek for it, all I know is that my /bin/ dir is deleted and can also confirm by booting up via livecd. My system is unchanged since this incident. After the update I only have /boot/, /dev/, /etc/, /home/, /lib/, /lib64/, /lost+found/, /media/, /mnt/, /opt/, /proc/, /root/, /run/, /sbin/, /srv/, /sys/, /tmp/, /usr/ and /var/. Please pull this update IMMEDIATELY before more people have pacman rm their /bin/! The chances of getting it back are, idk, minimal? So, what info do you need from the machine that pacman killed? -sigh- |
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With a normal setup you could not complete a default '-Syu', please refer to the latest post on the homepage.