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d3m0nm4dn3ss

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Registered: 2020-11-01

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[SOLVED] Konsole will not start up, I/O error and symbol lookup error

So I use Konsole (20.12.3-1) as my default terminal and it has stopped working all of the sudden. When I open it using my xfce4 keybinding that opens the default terminal I get a dialog saying "I/O error" or something like that with no useful information.

Running konsole manually I get this error

konsole: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libKF5KIOCore.so.5: undefined symbol: _ZN4KJob14percentChangedEPS_mNS_14QPrivateSignalE

which has an exit code of 127.

I did attempt to use the fucktheskullofsystemd script (https://gist.github.com/artixnous/41f4b … 23db921415) in the past to convert my arch system to artix which failed due to the disk filling up, so I had to revert to an earlier snapshot and I've been dealing with file conflict errors and the such which have not been too hard to diagnose, but I don't know if that is a cause of this issue.

The error is complete gibberish to me and I would appreciate it if I could get some help.

Last edited by d3m0nm4dn3ss (2021-03-26 02:31:45)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Konsole will not start up, I/O error and symbol lookup error

but I don't know if that is a cause of this issue

Pretty much likely. "ldd /usr/lib/libKF5KIOCore.so.5" does either not resolve a linked library or links an older version of it.
Ensure there's no garbage repo from artix in your pacman.conf, run a full system upgrade

pacman -Syu

and then check

LC_ALL=C pacman -Qkk | grep -v ', 0 altered files'

for remaining file discrepancies.

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d3m0nm4dn3ss

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Registered: 2020-11-01

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Re: [SOLVED] Konsole will not start up, I/O error and symbol lookup error

I ran your command and put all of the output into a txt file, then vim and parsed it for only the package names. Then I reinstalled all of those packages, deleting the file conflicts along the way. I can now launch Konsole, thanks a lot for your help.

johnsci911

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Registered: 2021-09-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Konsole will not start up, I/O error and symbol lookup error

I ran your command and put all of the output into a txt file, then vim and parsed it for only the package names. Then I reinstalled all of those packages, deleting the file conflicts along the way. I can now launch Konsole, thanks a lot for your help.

Can I ask about the method you used?