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intrinsic · 2005-09-10 20:17:30

don't know if this is necessarily the right channel but just to let the guys know that i have done multiple FTP installs over the past few months and for whatever reason there remains two issues.

1) the library variable for perl is not setup properly after initial install... one has to reinstall the perl package to fix the problem.
2) firefox (and others i would assume) don't run because /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders and /etc/pango/pango.modules are missing after initial install... running gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders and pango-querymodules fixes this.

other than those two qwerks kudos to the greatest distrib ever... tried em all under the sun till i tried arch never looking bad.

Dusty · 2005-09-10 21:16:22

Maybe these should go in bugs.archlinux.org

JGC · 2005-09-10 22:51:09

About that pango and gtk issue: I can't reproduce it. Do you have all packages from the base system installed on your system before installing pango/gtk2?

Dusty · 2005-09-10 23:04:16

JGC: I was guessing this was a ftp-install issue... are you testing from that?

Dusty

stonecrest · 2005-09-11 04:47:55

I've definitely run into that perl problem before.

intrinsic · 2005-09-14 00:20:24

yes it is an ftp install.
have done countless ftp installs over the past couple of months and gdk-pixbuf, pango, and perl problems are 100% consistent.
i have all packages from base...
hmm maybe with the exception of vim.

mmccaskill · 2005-09-14 22:08:38

I receieved this same error but only when selecting more than the "base" packages during the initial install. If I just install "base" packages and finish the install, reboot into the new system, install firefox then I don't get the issue. Maybe the installer is buggy?

JGC · 2005-09-14 22:17:44

Hmm, seems pacman can't run .install scripts from the installer then... Finally found out why this is a problem.

neri · 2005-09-15 18:09:27

JGC wrote:

Hmm, seems pacman can't run .install scripts from the installer then... Finally found out why this is a problem.

Is that the same reason why gid 21 isn't set sometimes with the slocate package?

-neri

dtw · 2005-09-15 18:31:12

Cool, it looks like if this gets fixed it might sort a lot of things out

apeiro · 2005-09-16 19:02:28

intrinsic wrote:

1) the library variable for perl is not setup properly after initial install... one has to reinstall the perl package to fix the problem.
2) firefox (and others i would assume) don't run because /etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders and /etc/pango/pango.modules are missing after initial install... running gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders and pango-querymodules fixes this.

These are both relating to a problem with scriptlets during FTP install that re-reared (yes, that's a word now) its ugly head. For some reason busybox puts chroot in /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin so pacman wasn't finding it.

It's been fixed now, and FTP installs with the 0.7 installer work fine. Freshly tested.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

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