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xnemesis

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Registered: 2016-08-30

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[Solved] libdbus, dbus and dbus-core

Hi all

I've had a search around the forum (and google) and found a few threads about similar problems but haven't found a solution to help me yet.
When running this:

[durir@mordor ~]$ sudo pacman -Syyu

I get the following output

:: Synchronising package databases...
 gnome-unstable            29.0   B  0.00B/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 core                     119.7 KiB   598K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
 extra                   1771.4 KiB  1153K/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
 community                  3.6 MiB   924K/s 00:04 [######################] 100%
 multilib                 173.1 KiB  1062K/s 00:00 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
:: Replace libdbus with core/dbus? [Y/n] 
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: geis: installing dbus (1.10.10-3) breaks dependency 'dbus-core'

I've tried to remove libdbus, but it will break a number of dependencies. Is it worth me forcing it? Or is there a better solution?

Thanks

Last edited by xnemesis (2016-08-31 07:20:21)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] libdbus, dbus and dbus-core

Moving to AUR Issues...

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Scimmia

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Re: [Solved] libdbus, dbus and dbus-core

What the hell is "geis" and why does it still depend on dbus-core, which hasn't existed in a long, long time?

2ManyDogs

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Re: [Solved] libdbus, dbus and dbus-core

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/geis/

xnemesis, how long has it been since you last updated your system? When was the last time you updated the "geis" AUR package?

xnemesis

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Registered: 2016-08-30

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Re: [Solved] libdbus, dbus and dbus-core

I do a full system update and clear all the cache out every 1-2 days. So I would have done one max 2 days before this message started appearing. I haven't specifically udpated geis. I've just looked through the logs and it was last updated a month ago.

Geis looks to be Gesture Engine Interface and Support installed from Yaourt. I don't remember installing it, but it was over a month ago. It says explicitly installed but it was likely a dependency of something. I'm going to traverse the dependencies, in the hope I work it out (as it can't be removed due to breaking dependencies) or someone else has a good idea?

UPDATE: I removed nux, so I could remove geis. Updated the system. Re-installed geis (not nux as it doesn't exist apparently) and it didn't force dbus-core. Have re-run system update following that and all is fine. I hadn't tried to remove geis using yaourt, just pacman and of course it said it wasn't a package, which led to my confusion. Anyway, thanks for your help

Last edited by xnemesis (2016-08-31 07:19:51)