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Cinbu

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[Solved] libmozjs-52.so.0 not reinstalled after removal

I think I messed something up in the last update.
Before updating I had to remove /usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0. So I thought I should also remove the symlink on it in the same directory. Apparently that was wrong. Now the polkit service is not working anymore as it can't find the library anymore:

$ systemctl status polkit
● polkit.service - Authorization Manager
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service; static; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Tue 2018-06-05 08:48:34 CEST; 13s ago
     Docs: man:polkit(8)
  Process: 16604 ExecStart=/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd --no-debug (code=exited, status=127)
 Main PID: 16604 (code=exited, status=127)

Jun 05 08:48:34 yogArch systemd[1]: Starting Authorization Manager...
Jun 05 08:48:34 yogArch polkitd[16604]: /usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd: error while loading shared libraries: >
Jun 05 08:48:34 yogArch systemd[1]: polkit.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Jun 05 08:48:34 yogArch systemd[1]: polkit.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 05 08:48:34 yogArch systemd[1]: Failed to start Authorization Manager.

I checked the /usr/lib directory, and there is no libmozjs version anymore. How can I reinstall it?

Last edited by Cinbu (2018-06-05 07:48:44)

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] libmozjs-52.so.0 not reinstalled after removal

┌─[Shiv ~]
└─╼ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0                                                                                                                      
/usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0 is owned by js52 52.7.3-2

Seeing you removed it, you would:

pacman -Fo /usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0                                                                                                                      
usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0 is owned by extra/js52 52.7.3-2

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Cinbu

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Re: [Solved] libmozjs-52.so.0 not reinstalled after removal

Thank you jason. I couldn't find the package that contained the library. After installing js52 everything works again.
Just out of curiosity, how could I have figured out the package containing libmozjs without the pacman -Qo command, since I couldn't have done that without having the file?

jasonwryan

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Re: [Solved] libmozjs-52.so.0 not reinstalled after removal

See my edit.

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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alexzk

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Re: [Solved] libmozjs-52.so.0 not reinstalled after removal

Sorry for necro, google pushed me here, in 2020 fix is:

pacman -S js52
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so /usr/lib/libmozjs-52.so.0

V1del

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Re: [Solved] libmozjs-52.so.0 not reinstalled after removal

Closing this old thread.