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amirmahdi

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Registered: 2021-11-01

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[SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

After the update, many packages give the following error:
error: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This is not a partial upgrade and I updated with this command:
pacman -Syu

Last edited by amirmahdi (2021-11-01 14:54:15)

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

This is a partial upgrade but the partialness is somewhere in the depths of your system. Run

lddtree $programbinary

on a utility affected by this to find the lib that has the wrong dependency. Potential candidates are a broken python or glib2 environment.

On the chance that this is indeed an update inconsistency rather than something inherently wrong, make sure your top mirror is actively syncing and has a low delay time: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/#successful

Last edited by V1del (2021-11-01 08:28:10)

dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

You need 'pax-utils' in order to run 'lddtree', btw.

amirmahdi

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Registered: 2021-11-01

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

This is a partial upgrade but the partialness is somewhere in the depths of your system. Run

lddtree $programbinary

on a utility affected by this to find the lib that has the wrong dependency. Potential candidates are a broken python or glib2 environment.

On the chance that this is indeed an update inconsistency rather than something inherently wrong, make sure your top mirror is actively syncing and has a low delay time: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/#successful

Currently, Network Manager, gdm, flatpack and a few other packages are broken. I do not know their binary addresses. Please tell me the binary address of one to execute the command.

amirmahdi

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Registered: 2021-11-01

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

You need 'pax-utils' in order to run 'lddtree', btw.

thank you. Already installed.

dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

I do not know their binary addresses. Please tell me the binary address of one to execute the command.

You can run:

pacman -Ql <package-name> | grep bin

amirmahdi

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Registered: 2021-11-01

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

I do not know their binary addresses. Please tell me the binary address of one to execute the command.

You can run:

pacman -Ql <package-name> | grep bin

thank you. result of

lddtree /usr/bin/gdm

:

/usr/bin/gdm (interpreter => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2)
    libsystemd.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsystemd.so.0
        librt.so.1 => /usr/lib/librt.so.1
        liblzma.so.5 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.5
        libzstd.so.1 => /usr/lib/libzstd.so.1
        liblz4.so.1 => /usr/lib/liblz4.so.1
        libcap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcap.so.2
        libgcrypt.so.20 => /usr/lib/libgcrypt.so.20
            libgpg-error.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgpg-error.so.0
        libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpthread.so.0
    libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
        libffi.so.7 => None
    libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0
        libpcre.so.1 => /usr/lib/libpcre.so.1
    libgio-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
            libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdl.so.2
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1
        libmount.so.1 => /usr/lib/libmount.so.1
            libblkid.so.1 => /usr/lib/libblkid.so.1
        libresolv.so.2 => /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2
    libaccountsservice.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaccountsservice.so.0
        libcrypt.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2
    libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6
    libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1
    libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6
    libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

    libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
        libffi.so.7 => None

So check

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0

amirmahdi

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Registered: 2021-11-01

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

    libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
        libffi.so.7 => None

So check

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0

result of

pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0

:

/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 is owned by glib2-git 2.69.2.7.g758948e21-1

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

glib2-git is an aur package and needs to be updated by you .

Rebuild it or switch to glib2 from core .

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

Which is an AUR package, so you are responsible for rebuilding it when needed. If you replace low-level system libraries with AUR versions, you really need to pay attention to things.

dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

'glib2-git' is an aur package. 'glib2' is at version 2.70.0-2 atm. Technically you're on your own if you want to keep 'glib2-git' (you could rebuild it and see what happens - but don't expect any further help here, or install 'glib2' from the official repositories, which may require you to remove some other 3rd party packages...).

EDIT: Duh!

Last edited by dogknowsnx (2021-11-01 13:27:53)

amirmahdi

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Registered: 2021-11-01

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

Thanks everybody. Instead of glib2-git, I installed the glib2 package and a lot of the problem was solved. But now I get the white screen of GNOME error. I found in the System-D logs that the problem is still with libffi.so.7. The same error as before but from "gnome-shell"

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

Then repeat the process here. It's likely you installed more than just glib2-git at some time for some reason, maybe also check the foreign packages with

pacman -Qm

outright.

dogknowsnx

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Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

Did you check your mirrors (see link above) and do another '# pacman -Syu'?

amirmahdi

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Registered: 2021-11-01

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

Did you check your mirrors (see link above) and do another '# pacman -Syu'?

Yes. I updated my mirrors with Reflector

amirmahdi

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Registered: 2021-11-01

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] After the update, GDM and a few other packages do not work.

Then repeat the process here. It's likely you installed more than just glib2-git at some time for some reason, maybe also check the foreign packages with

pacman -Qm

outright.

thank you. For other packages, the problem was the same as before and was fixed