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deft

Member

Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 79

grep: Unmatched [ or [^ - boot message after recent update

Hi - just done:

# pacman -Syu

as per normal once every 3 days or so and have noticed on boot up now after it says:

"Starting hotplug daemon"

it comes up with:

grep: Unmatched [ or [^

and then goes onto:

"Starting networking"

and carry's on as normal after that, log in etc -

I think the update pulled in recent versions:

gcc 4
kdelibs
glibc
binutils
gnome-vfs

and one or two other packages.

Does anyone know what the issue is ? - thanks.

giovanni

Developer

From: Livorno, Italy

Registered: 2005-04-07

Posts: 68

Re: grep: Unmatched [ or [^ - boot message after recent update

I have tried to run all scripts in /etc/hotplug.
I think the problem is in /etc/hotplug/usb.rc script
# /etc/hotplug/usb.rc stop
# /etc/hotplug/usb.rc start
grep: Unmatched [ or [^
#

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neri

Forum Fellow

From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: grep: Unmatched [ or [^ - boot message after recent update

Just to make a crossconnection to the bugtracker:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/?do=details&id=2657

The new glibc in testing has a broken regexp code

-neri

deft

Member

Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 79

Re: grep: Unmatched [ or [^ - boot message after recent update

Cheers guys, that explains it - thanks

deft

Member

Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 79

Re: grep: Unmatched [ or [^ - boot message after recent update

Brief update - just updated to:

glibc-2.3.5-3

via the usuall:

# pacman -Syu

and everything's fine now, no "grep errors" on boot up - cheers to the devs/maintainers etc etc.

Cool

(for general info todays update was:

Targets: codecs-20050412-1 glibc-2.3.5-3 imagemagick-6.2.2-1 iputils-021109-4 mtools-3.9.10-1 pkgconfig-0.17.2-1 xine-lib-1.0.1-1)