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#1 2008-11-03 11:25:48

ftornay
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"ABS needs rsync" error

Hi everyone!

Lately I've having lots of trouble with pacman. First thing I got this when doing pacman -S whatever:

/sbin/ldconfig: /opt/kde/lib/libkmid.so.0.0.95 no es un fichero ELF - tiene los bytes mágicos equivocados en el comienzo.

/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libmpg123.so no es un fichero ELF - tiene los bytes mágicos equivocados en el comienzo.

[snip]

I thought maybe it was related to my root partition being full so I flushed the pacman cache (pacman -Scc) and got my partition down to 64% use. Now I still get the same errors when updating and I also get this when updating (pacman -Syu), right after repos get updated (this is a translation, I use the Spanish version of Archlinux):

solving dependencies...
error: couldn't open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra/mod_perl-2.0.4-3/depends: No such file or dir
error: couldn't solve "rsync", a dependency for "abs"
error: transaction failure (dependencies couldn't be satisfied)
:: abs: needs rsync

I installed rsync from source and I still get the same errors

Any ideas?

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#2 2008-11-03 11:29:48

Allan
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Re: "ABS needs rsync" error

Try a "pacman -Syyu"

And could you translate this "no es un fichero ELF - tiene los bytes mágicos equivocados en el comienzo"

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#3 2008-11-03 11:34:03

ftornay
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Re: "ABS needs rsync" error

Sorry, I skipped that:

It means: " not an ELF file - wrong magic bytes at the beginning"

I'm trying your suggestion right now.

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#4 2008-11-03 11:36:35

ftornay
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Re: "ABS needs rsync" error

pacman -Syyu seems to be working. At least it has started upgrading packages, past the point where it exited with errors. It'll take a while to finish, though (lots of packages).

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#5 2008-11-03 11:40:29

Allan
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Re: "ABS needs rsync" error

You will probably also need to reinstall the packages giving the errors with ldconfig.

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#6 2008-11-03 11:44:41

ftornay
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Re: "ABS needs rsync" error

Thanks Allan.

Yes, I'll install the packages. Sometimes it's not obvious the name of the package from the message, for example "libkmid" is not a package, neither is kmid, is there a convenient way to find out the appropriate package name?

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#7 2008-11-03 11:48:46

Allan
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Re: "ABS needs rsync" error

"pacman -Qo <file>"  although that might have issues given things were not extracted nicely....

edit:
/usr/lib/libmpg123.so is owned by mpg123
/opt/kde/lib/libkmid.so.0.0.95 is owned by kdelibs3

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#8 2008-11-03 11:51:56

ftornay
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Re: "ABS needs rsync" error

Thank you very much for your help, Allan.

I'll try to reinstall the packages as soon as I'm done with the updating.

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#9 2008-11-03 12:39:41

ftornay
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Re: "ABS needs rsync" error

It worked!!!

I had to trace back the dependency problems to libdvdread. After installing this, I installed sox, kdelibs3 then mplayer. I don't get any more errors.

Thanks again.

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