[SOLVED] libicuuc.so.48: cannot open shared object file: No such file

Mr. X · 2012-10-31 19:37:24

I just did the last pacman update, tried with several mirrors (ftp.archlinux.org included).

Starting Chromium or Firefox gives me this error:

error while loading shared libraries: libicuuc.so.48: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Error could be temporary solved by softlinking libicuuc.so.48 to libicuuc.so.49 (or libicuuc.so.49.1.2), but Chromium then experiences
major graphical problems and becomes useless.

I understand this lib is part of icu package so I tried building it with ABS - no luck, the problem exists.

What should I try next?

Last edited by Mr. X (2012-11-02 09:59:30)

Snowman · 2012-10-31 21:34:58

Make sure your system is fully up-to-date (pacman -Syu).

Mr. X · 2012-10-31 22:34:17

I did, I even tried it with official ftp.archlinux.org mirror, and then I tried enabling the test repo too. Did a reboot afterwards, but nothing helped.

edit:
I just realized every GTK app I start raises the same error

Last edited by Mr. X (2012-10-31 22:39:16)

arojas · 2012-10-31 22:47:18

Are you using any package from the AUR or an unofficial repo?

Mr. X · 2012-10-31 22:54:59

I do use AUR packages in general

arojas · 2012-11-01 07:58:05

What I mean is, have you replaced any official package with an unofficial version from another repo? Otherwise, try an strace to see why it is trying to access an old libicu version

Mr. X · 2012-11-01 09:54:49

Your guess led me to the conclusion!

AUR packages were not the problem, but what I did was I force-removed gtk2 and gtk3 packages and then installed them again. Everything works now, thanks.

Here's exactly what I did

pacman -Rdd harfbuzz-git pango gtk2 gtk3 librsvg pangomm libtiger
pacman -S gtk2 gtk3

Last edited by Mr. X (2012-11-01 09:55:04)

arojas · 2012-11-01 10:38:02

So there you have it, harfbuzz-git was your problem

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[SOLVED] libicuuc.so.48: cannot open shared object file: No such file

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