Don’t we all love broken dependencies?!?!?
After a sweet update at the end of my day, I was a good boy and I restarted my system just to be prompted with a frozen screen. Lucy enough, I got TTY. After some debugging I realised that libmount.so.1 was at version 2.39, whereas libgio.so.0 requires version 2.40…
So now what???
At this point, I was looking up the packages at https://archlinux.org/packages/ and I was planning on downgrading GLIB to the previous version. Now, unfortunately, I had cleared the cache, so I needed to download the package in order to install it. However, libmount is used by NetworkManager, meaning I had no Internet. libmount is also used for mounting external drives, so no USB with the package either.
Sooo, I decided I should do the things from chroot, so I booted in an external Arch and mounted the drive. When I went to find the link for the package tho, I saw that there has been recently pushed an update for util-linux… Around half an hour after the GLIB update…
I ran pacman -Syu from the chroot terminal, restarted my machine, and everything was running just fine again…
In a nutshell, anyone who updated their system in this half an hour window got screwed up…