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lcapelin

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Registered: 2008-03-14

Posts: 3

Tor breaks on libevent upgrade (again) - What would you do?

Hi all!

I'm quite new to Arch and very new to Forums of any sort!

After the recent libevent upgrade (libevent-1.3e-1), Tor fails to start and produces the following error:

tor: error while loading shared libraries: libevent-1.3d.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Since I had libevent-1.3d-2 sitting around, I resolved this by simply downgrading thus:

sudo pacman -U libevent-1.3d-2-i686.pkg.tar.gz

My question is what is the best way to resolve the breakage? Should I really build tor from source against the new libevent?

Cheers!

laurence

gothmog.todi

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From: Austria

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 120

Re: Tor breaks on libevent upgrade (again) - What would you do?

My question is what is the best way to resolve the breakage? Should I really build tor from source against the new libevent?

That's the way. At least if you don't want to wait for the official update.
Symlinking the new libevent.so to the one needed by tor may also work (but is kinda ugly)

lcapelin

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Registered: 2008-03-14

Posts: 3

Re: Tor breaks on libevent upgrade (again) - What would you do?

Thanks a lot!

Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Tor breaks on libevent upgrade (again) - What would you do?

see my comment: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9835

lcapelin

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Registered: 2008-03-14

Posts: 3

Re: Tor breaks on libevent upgrade (again) - What would you do?

Many thanks for your swift attention!