With update I see glibc errors

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On one of my computer the system is broken.

I see multiple issues.

  • GDM never displays, on the log I see :
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'vboxnetadp'
août 11 19:16:52 david-PC apparmor.systemd[314]: Restarting AppArmor
août 11 19:16:52 david-PC apparmor.systemd[314]: Reloading AppArmor profiles
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'vboxnetflt'
août 11 19:16:52 david-PC systemd[1]: Started Journal Service.
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'vboxdrv'
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'vboxnetadp'
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'vboxnetflt'
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'nvidia'
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'nvidia_drm'
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Inserted module 'macvlan'
août 11 19:16:51 david-PC systemd-modules-load[323]: Failed to find module 'nvidia-uvm'

Seems not good

  • When I use terminal, some command show this :
mhwd -l                                                                                                                                                                       
mhwd: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.42' not found (required by /usr/lib/libhd.so.25)

Doesn’t seems good neither

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After today’s update I am getting the GLIBC_2.42 not found error when trying to launch chromium or firefox:

/usr/lib/chromium/chromium: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.42' not found (required by /usr/lib/chromium/chromium)

XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so:
/usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.42' not found (required by /usr/lib/firefox/libxul.so)
Couldn't load XPCOM.
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This sounds like a partial update. Using a live media or trying to extract the content of pacman-static to the affected system to try to fix it via sudo pacman-static -Syu. Current glibc version in all branches should be: 2.42+r3+gbc13db739377-1 as of 2025-08-11.

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Hi,

Thanks,

sudo pacman-static -Syu
sudo pacman -Syyu

seems to fix.

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it doesn’t matter if you use pacman-static or the regular pacman, if it works. The only difference is that the static build includes all needed libraries in its binary and is therefore usable on broken systems as well.

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sudo pacman-static -Syu alone did not help me, but sudo pacman -Syyu was giving me this error:

error: failed retrieving file 'extra.db' from mirrors.cicku.me : HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2)

So I did first:

sudo pacman-mirrors --geoip

And after that sudo pacman-static -Syu solved it!

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