rxvt-unicode broken after latest update

huuggee · 2011-06-29 09:26:26

Has anyone else had their urxvt broken after some updates overnight?

when I start urxvt now I get

urxvt: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr

There is a bug report from 2008 - 9075 when a perl upgrade from 5.8 to 5.10 broke urxvt in the same way.

trashstar · 2011-06-29 09:46:15

I have a quite similar error when starting urxvt

urxvt: symbol lookup error: urxvt: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

i think it stems from the perl update yesterday.

rochus · 2011-06-29 10:08:18

Similar problem here, though the symbol is another one

urxvt: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

Last edited by rochus (2011-06-29 10:12:46)

huuggee · 2011-06-29 10:17:53

there was this warning during the perl upgrade

- The directories /usr/lib/perl5/current, /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/current,
  /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1, and /usr/share/perl5/site_perl/5.10.1
  have been removed from @INC.
- The script/binary directories are now /usr/bin/*_perl instead of
  /usr/lib/perl5/*_perl/bin which will be eventually removed.

need to find out what the implications of this are.

tomk · 2011-06-29 10:27:51

Are you all sure you did pacman -Syu from an up-to-date mirror? I've been using perl 5.14.1-1 since it hit testing nearly a week ago, and I have no urxvt issues.

You should have rxvt-unicode 9.11-4 btw.

rochus · 2011-06-29 10:31:20

I just makepkg'd rxvt-unicode, didn't change anything. Updated directly from archlinux.org

trashstar · 2011-06-29 10:49:29

tomk wrote:

Are you all sure you did pacman -Syu from an up-to-date mirror? I've been using perl 5.14.1-1 since it hit testing nearly a week ago, and I have no urxvt issues.
You should have rxvt-unicode 9.11-4 btw.

Thanks. That actually solved. Changed the mirror and got a new and working urxvt

rochus · 2011-06-29 11:35:56

@trashstar: are you on an x86_64 system? if not, then it might be dependend on the system architecture as I'm on a 64bit system.

I guess the problem is not directly comming from urxvt but from perl, as at least one other package does not work to be made: perl-ppix-regexp from AUR.

rochus · 2011-06-29 11:39:55

All right I got a fix and a running urxvt:
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so belongs to perl-scalar-util. Removing this package goes without dependency violations. Afterwards, urxvt will run flawlessly (until up for now).

But as I'm no perl user/developer and thus have no knowledge about which library is used for what, I can't say if the library is required elsewhere...

EDIT: it seems as the perl-scalar-util package was completely removed from AUR in january...
EDIT2: you should also recompile perl-params-util

Last edited by rochus (2011-06-29 11:52:08)

tomk · 2011-06-29 13:37:39

rochus wrote:

@trashstar: are you on an x86_64 system? if not, then it might be dependend on the system architecture as I'm on a 64bit system.

Not relevant - I'm also on 64.

huuggee · 2011-06-29 13:49:44

It's got to be a perl problem.

I'm struggling to get a lot of perl scripts to run since this upgrade with undefined symbols in lots of packages.

It seems to be stuff i've cpan'd

And it broke cpan, so I'm having trouble trying to recompile anything

Last edited by huuggee (2011-06-29 13:50:20)

huuggee · 2011-06-29 14:10:46

Ok. I deleted (read: backed up) /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/*

things seem to be working, but I am slightly nervous I may have broken modules in perl.

LeCrayonVert · 2011-06-29 15:20:48

huuggee >> Removing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/* did not solve this issue with gscan2pdf (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7710) :

/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Gtk2/ImageView/ImageView.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

Did you mean vendor_perl/* ? Cause in site_perl/auto, there's two empty directories ....

tree
.
├── gscan2pdf
└── Lltag

But I can't remove those directories just like that...it will break everything...

I'm reinstalling every gscan2pdf dependancy right now...

edit : fixed by reinstalling everything...(gscan2pdf and its dependencies)

Last edited by LeCrayonVert (2011-06-29 15:36:01)

mann138 · 2011-06-29 16:45:33

well, happens to be that i'm developing in bioperl using some CPAN Modules and have the same issue:

/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr

I just realized the error after the upgrade, so haven't gone deep into it... don't think removing vendor_perl will solve my issue as I have modules there =/ will check though and report later... it happens only when I use modules from Bioperl and others cpan'd modules

Final Edit: Did what huuggee suggested, seems to be working now and I didn't need to reinstall anything...

Last edited by mann138 (2011-06-29 17:27:30)

losl · 2011-06-29 17:37:47

I had rxvt-unicode-256color installed, and had this issue.

pacman -Syy rxvt-unicode

got it working again.

tomk · 2011-06-29 17:43:46

AUR users should know that if they have perl-dependent packages installed from the aur, they will have to rebuild them against the updated perl package.

thisllub · 2011-06-30 10:13:17

rxvt-unicode-256color is the problem package.

x33a · 2011-06-30 11:55:01

thisllub wrote:

rxvt-unicode-256color is the problem package.

Did you try rebuilding it. I was using rxvt-unicode-patched from aur, and a simple rebuild fixed the perl problem for me.

jelly · 2011-06-30 16:26:34

thisllub wrote:

rxvt-unicode-256color is the problem package.

package is obselete rxvt-unicode provides 256 color already

uberGeek · 2011-06-30 23:54:08

Well, 9.12 came out yesterday, and my current version was broken on the perl update so I just made a few minor edits to the PKGBUILD for rxvt-unicode-afterimage (version number and md5sum of the source) and built it. Working great, thanks for the info Archers.

Last edited by uberGeek (2011-06-30 23:54:56)

mkaito · 2011-07-01 02:22:30

After checking for the owning package of

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/auto/List/Util/Util.so

it turned out it was an orphan file... or something from some cpan package. I removed the package, which solved the urxvt issue, and I haven't seen any side effects so far.

sguenz · 2011-07-01 04:38:25

The problem is in Perl. Here is how to fix it:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121888

Allan · 2011-07-01 04:47:16

sguenz wrote:

The problem is in Perl. Here is how to fix it:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=121888

That just says the problem is not in perl.... it is in the modules that you installed. Rebuild your AUR/CPAN perl modules people!

mkaito · 2011-07-01 14:11:14

Is there any quick way to identify and rebuild all of these modules?

ravicious · 2011-07-02 23:22:22

I'm not an Arch guru, but this has worked for me:

sudo pacman -Rdd gconf-perl imagemagick librsvg libxml-perl perl-gnome2-wnck perl-gtk2-imageview perl-gtk2-unique perl-locale-gettext perl-net-dbus perl-proc-processtable perl-www-mechanize perl-x11-protocol perl-xml-simple procps xdg-utils shutter perl-goo-canvas && sudo pacman -Sc && packer -S perl-goo-canvas shutter

It does the following things:

1. Removes all shutter dependecies (just to be sure), shutter itself and perl-goo-canvas - turns out that shutter needs this package.
2. Cleans the package cache of packages that are not currently installed.
3. Installs perl-goo-canvas and shutter (this operation rebuilds all Perl modules).

Replace packer with your favourite AUR helper and (if you're lazy) add --noconfirm to each command.

Last edited by ravicious (2011-07-02 23:31:37)

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