New expat breaks dbus-daemon [solved]

toofishes · 2006-09-10 15:45:51

Did anyone else have this problem? X/Gnome doesn't start because of it.

/usr/bin/dbus-daemon: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

When you do a pacman -Ql of expat, this library is definitely not created:

$ pacman -Ql expat
expat /usr/
expat /usr/bin/
expat /usr/bin/xmlwf
expat /usr/include/
expat /usr/include/expat.h
expat /usr/include/expat_external.h
expat /usr/lib/
expat /usr/lib/libexpat.a
expat /usr/lib/libexpat.so
expat /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1
expat /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.0
expat /usr/man/
expat /usr/man/man1/
expat /usr/man/man1/xmlwf.1.gz

I fixed it by just creating a symlink for libexpat.so.0 to libexpat.so, but does dbus need to be recompiled to account for the new expat version?

toofishes · 2006-09-10 15:47:07

And it looks like I just didnt get the updated dbus- sorry guys. I'll wait for the mirrors to sync.

chrismortimore · 2006-09-10 16:02:20

I found all my dbus (and related) issues were solved by reinstalling expat. It was strange, because it installed the same version, so I guess something went funny during the initial upgrade.

Arch Linux

#1 2006-09-10 15:45:51

New expat breaks dbus-daemon [solved]

#2 2006-09-10 15:47:07

Re: New expat breaks dbus-daemon [solved]

#3 2006-09-10 16:02:20

Re: New expat breaks dbus-daemon [solved]

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