glibc casuing file conflicts Arch Linux.

Hey fellow Arch users. I tried to force an upgrade and broke my system. So, I decided to reinnstall. I was tired of the gnome DE that I was using anyway and want to install openbox.

So I ran into a problem while installing xorg's relevent packages for the desktop UI. I tried to sync the system packages and I am running into a file conflict with glibc. It happens if I try to upgrade my system, install xorg-server, upgrade glibc or when I try to upgrade pacman.

This didn't happen on my first installation. I cannot move forward in my installation until I resolve this conflict.

Any help is appreciated!

I have posted the issue at Linuxquestions.org as well --> glibc causing problems with upgrade and installation

Did you try to do what it said on the frontpage of Arch Linux

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All Arch Linux packages have had their files in the /lib directory moved to /usr/lib and now /lib is a symlink to usr/lib. When performing this update, pacman will likely identify a conflict in the /lib directory. In the simplest case, this is worked around by doing:

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pacman -Syu --ignore glibc
pacman -Su

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Never use --force during this update.
If either of this steps does not work (e.g. due to dependency version issues, file conflicts in /lib), refer to this guide for more detailed instructions on performing this upgrade.

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If so what were the results?

Yeah, I just seen that 2 hours ago. I just go home now. So, I will see what I can do after I eat. Thanks.

Ok, so everything was moved from /lib to /usr/lib and now glibc is causing a conflict. I cannot just remove /lib since the symlinks point there and would cause nothing to work on my system. I read the solutions and it is still fuzzy! I tried the --ignore glibc -Syu upgrade and no luck.

So what exactly should I do? I also removed the modules folder.

Why the hell was this even done in the first place? Everything was fine the way it was!

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Originally Posted by Annonymous

Ok, so everything was moved from /lib to /usr/lib and now glibc is causing a conflict. I cannot just remove /lib since the symlinks point there and would cause nothing to work on my system. I read the solutions and it is still fuzzy! I tried the --ignore glibc -Syu upgrade and no luck.

So what exactly should I do? I also removed the modules folder.

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:facepalm: There is a detailed guide linked for those who have development packages installed.

For me, the additional problem was the non cooperating libGL library from the nvidia driver.
I had to temporarily remove that and remove the packages that depend on it and reinstall them from pacman's cache after glibc was upgraded.

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Why the hell was this even done in the first place? Everything was fine the way it was!

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No..everything was NOT okay.
Google "usr merge".

Yeah I found a wiki article devoted to just this. I satisfied all dependencies and got all the way to the last package... glibc and instead of removing it, I moved the lib dir like a dumbass and now I can't boot. After I spent 6 hours on this. Now I have to start from scratch again.

I mistook a cannot determine ownership of file for a removal. I was only supposed to remove files/dirs that absolutely had no owners. Now I know lol

Ok had another crack at it tonight and it only took about a half hour to resolve all glibc dependencies and conflicts this time. A pain but at least now I can finally install the desktop!