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I'm not sure how funny this will be, but here's how I broke my system twice in a single case. Step by step:
pacman -Syu
, I always checked for warnings (foolishly thinking that the downgraded and ignored glibc would cause apacman
warning if it broke dependencies) and there were none. So, the updated OS stopped working due to unmatched glibc. BREAK 1pacman -Ql
andcp
to copy new glibc related files into the broken system (because I was too lazy to learn how to do it the correct way withpacman
andchroot
didn't work becauseglibc
is needed by bash).pacman -Ql
, which was tellingcp
to copy the whole /etc /usr and other directories. (just if I hadn't given the-r
tocp
) BREAK 2In the end, I just made a new installation, this time with a new home and hand-picked whatever settings I wanted from the previous home, Viva la multi-HDD