A reddit post explained that Valve had deleted some files belonging to installed packages and the resolution was to reinstall them.
So I ran the following command and surely, my compile worked afterwards.
sudo pacman -S glibc linux-api-headers
sudo pacman -S glibc linux-api-headers
stat -c "%a %n" *
#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: rtorrent
# Required-Start:
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: rtorrent
# Description: start rtorrent
### END INIT INFO
case "$1" in
start)
echo "Starting rtorrent..."
su myUser-c 'screen -dmS rtorrent rtorrent'
;;
stop)
echo "Stopping rtorrent..."
killall -s 2 rtorrent
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
sniglom@ubuntu:~$ df -T
Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root btrfs 74883072 64868632 7660472 90% /
none tmpfs 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev devtmpfs 1947336 4 1947332 1% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 391584 948 390636 1% /run
none tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none tmpfs 1957904 0 1957904 0% /run/shm
none tmpfs 102400 0 102400 0% /run/user
/dev/sda1 ext2 233191 85180 135570 39% /boot
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root btrfs 74883072 64868632 7660472 90% /home
/dev/sdc1 btrfs 3907010376 130943884 3773014644 4% /mnt/fillmore
/dev/sdb1 btrfs 488385560 454164988 28962604 95% /mnt/storage
Setup the host properly so that name service provides the name properly to the remote machine (or create the user locally).