Hi all,
Just FYI there appears to be
an upstream issue in Arch Linux that has now reached Arch Linux ARM.
If you do a full upgrade you may see a bunch of errors about libffi.so.7 missing. The problem is that the libffi package has been upgraded to supply libffi.so.8, but every other package is still looking for libffi.so.7, and the dependencies have not been set correctly, except for a few packages such as glib2 which will refuse to install because of this.
The workaround is to pass pacman the "--ignore libffi" parameter to skip the bad package. or if you have already installed it and are getting errors from programs which refuse to start, download libffi version 3.3-4 from the
archive and install that, which will restore the missing libffi.so.7 file.