Hey Keith,

Admirations on doing it the Arch way – one of the best approaches to learning Linux!

Best,
Bobby

Hi Bobby,

Just a courtesy follow-up.

I didn’t reinstall Arch. I figured that was an easy, non-academic way of resolving my computer issues. So I kept searching and digging, and I corrected all of my issues. And I can use pacman now.

I reconfigured Openbox, and also reinstalled LXQt. I had a Fontconfig error which led me to find some empty files in Googles Noto TTF fonts. There were also some empty libgpg* files that I had to reinstall. I also reinstalled archlinux-keyring.

Luckily there are enough posts in the Arch forums and I found posts where people had similar issues to mine so troubleshooting was interesting. Along with great error messages and debugging.

Regards,
Keith

Hi, Thanks for the quick response! Unfortunately I did not have any luck trying all those things on that page. I guess tomorrow I’ll spend some time and do a full install. Haha I kinda figured this would happen so I’ve already made notes and made some backup copies of files. Thanks again, Happy Holidays.

Hi Keith,

Try the things described here:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285100

Best,
Bobby

What happened:
I did sudo pacman -Syu and it appeared to upgrade successfully.

But now when I use pacman I always get: Error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgpgme.so.11 file too short.

I can’t install pacman-static from the AUR because when I try to makepkg it, it wants to use pacman, which gives the above error.

I used the ISO install disc but after I mount all my partitions and try sudo pacman -S gpgme, it tries to work but at the end it errors.

After I arch-chroot into /mnt, using pacman again gives the above error.

I use LXQt and all of my programs won’t show the header bar so I can’t resize them. I also lost three of my desktop switchers. It won’t detect my usb thumb drives now. My PCman file browser window is now 1/2 the size of the screen.

Great! Glad it was helpful. 🙂