cjs downgrade

jf25 · 2016-11-14 09:32:10

Hello,
when doing pacman -Syu today, pacman warned me, that my version of cjs (3.2.0-1) was greater than the cjs version in the community repository (3.0.1-2). First I ignored that, with the result that Cinnamon crashed on login. Then I downgraded cjs to 3.0.1-2. Now everything works fine again. But is there any official information why the package has been downgraded? I can't remember such a downgrade has happened before.
Thanks.

Last edited by jf25 (2016-11-14 09:32:55)

x33a · 2016-11-14 11:20:38

This is very weird. Looking at the package log at https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/comm … ckages/cjs, it doesn't seem that it was downgraded, but on the package page, the version is indeed 3.0.1-2.

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … 86_64/cjs/

Even if there's a reason for a downgrade, it shouldn't be done without adding an epoch. Are you using the testing repo?

WorMzy · 2016-11-14 11:35:52

I can only hazard a guess here, but I suspect the maintainer pushed an update through during readline 7.0 update. So a rebuild (3.0.1-2) was pushed to staging/, then the maintainer pushed an update (3.2.0-1) directly to community/, then all of staging/ was pushed through. Looks like a couple of bug reports have been opened about cinnamon and the readline update, so keep an eye on those.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51816
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/51817

Yaau · 2016-11-14 11:45:47

Hi there,

---------don't use this workaround --------------------
I've just had the same problem. Cinnamon crashes beacause "libread.so.6" can't be found. First I used a symbolic link from libreadline.so.6 to libreadline.so.7.0 to correct this problem. But now pacman wants to downgrade cjs again from Version 3.2.0-1 to 3.0.1-2. I downgraded it again now, everything seems to work again. But it's strange update behaviour.
---------don't use this workaround --------------------

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WorMzy · 2016-11-14 11:57:35

I used a symbolic link from libread.so.6 to libread.so.7.0 to correct this problem

Don't do that. libread.so.7 is called that because it isn't the same as libread.so.6. Read up on soname bumps and why they happen.

Yaau · 2016-11-14 12:05:46

Yes but I needed a short time solution. Meanwhile I changed it back, after downgrade. Sorry didn't want to promote a dirty workaround.

WorMzy · 2016-11-14 12:24:59

Fair enough. A better workaround would be to extract the .so.6 libraries from an older version of the package. e.g. readline-6.3.008-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz. This isn't a long term solution, but should work in the interim.

EDIT: make sure to remove the .so.6 libraries after cjs/cinnamon is fixed.

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jf25 · 2016-11-14 17:16:28

x33a wrote:

Even if there's a reason for a downgrade, it shouldn't be done without adding an epoch. Are you using the testing repo?

Nope, never had testing enabled. The history of cjs on my computer is as follows:
3.0.1-1 -> 3.2.0-1 -> 3.0.1-2

Looking at the git-log, it seems as there will be a cjs 3.2.0-2 soon. Still pretty strange, though. Shouldn't there be other users who made the same experience as I did?

Scimmia · 2016-11-14 17:18:31

There are, a number of people on IRC and numerous bug reports.

Edit: looks like this has been taken care of.

Last edited by Scimmia (2016-11-14 17:36:08)

djsheva · 2016-11-15 07:48:31

Yaau wrote:

Yes but I needed a short time solution. Meanwhile I changed it back, after downgrade. Sorry didn't want to promote a dirty workaround.

Hi! Short solution here can be downgrading cinnamon version.

Try "yaourt cinnamon" and install packages from "antegros" (lower version), not "community"

jasonwryan · 2016-11-15 08:12:41

djsheva wrote:

Yaau wrote:
Yes but I needed a short time solution. Meanwhile I changed it back, after downgrade. Sorry didn't want to promote a dirty workaround.
Hi! Short solution here can be downgrading cinnamon version.
Try "yaourt cinnamon" and install packages from "antegros" (lower version), not "community"

Antegros is a separate distro: we only support Arch. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … pport_ONLY

Yaau · 2016-11-15 08:43:44

Hi thx for your reply,

but I'm not going to downgrade packages which are working correctly for several days (cinnamon) and I'm definitely not mixing up packages of different Distros as a workaround (even if they are both arch "based"). Meanwhile the problem was fixed (cjs got updatet again), no workarounds are needed anymore.

Last edited by Yaau (2016-11-15 08:44:48)

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