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Mr.Elendig

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From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

With the amount of bad mirrors at the moment, you shouldn't use rankmirrors at all.

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methuselah

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Registered: 2007-10-02

Posts: 570

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

Thank you to both arkham and rsambuca for the help here.

I use pacbuilde-svn and when it built readline during an upgrade it messed up the libreadline.so.5.

Then I did a moronic thing by shutting my computer off before searching out the proper way to fix the libreadline.so.5 error.

So when I started my computer again I realized that I couldn't boot up.

I'm glad I had an Arch LiveCD and these commands to run. I thought I was going to have to reinstall.

Last edited by methuselah (2009-07-09 09:06:51)

Chokkan

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Registered: 2009-04-06

Posts: 129

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

lol I did the exact same moronic thing as you. It was the end of the day and I was on my way home. That Arch LiveUSB stick is very, very, precious to me.

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farvardin

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Registered: 2008-09-03

Posts: 120

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Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

I don't think it's normal the system would break just because you install a package like this.

Today I've installed gnupg, so it updated readline but not bash, and my system broke (I had to reboot to an other distribution to fix it).

Bash>4.0.24 could be made as dependency for readline for example.

Marcel-

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From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

The same is true for texlive-bin. I installed TeXlive a few days ago and libreadline was updated. After that, I had not much fun with Linux...

mang

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From: stockholm/sweden

Registered: 2008-11-11

Posts: 27

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Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

hi,
i have problem with this too..
i can't remember i did any 'pacman -Sy some-pkg' but only 'pacman -Syu'
When booting i first got an error first about newline not found. Then when truecrypt is supposed to mount my /home i get 'libstdc++.so.6 not found'. When i log in, after every command i get 'libpython2.6.so.1.0 not found' and if i try to run pacman i get 'libalpm.so.3 not found' and many more erros from other commands.
I did upgrade through the live cd and i can't see any readline error during boot anymore but the other errors is still the same except truecrypt now complains about libXxf86vm.so.1 instead.
sorry if i missed something obvious but i don't know what to do:/

markp1989

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Registered: 2008-10-05

Posts: 431

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

Boot an Arch live, mount your Arch partition in /mnt and run

pacman -r /mnt -Sy bash

You should always upgrade the system with pacman -Syu and never upgrade single packages.

thanks, this sorted out the problem for me, i got it from installing devede and mandvd , but now this is all good

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Horris

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Registered: 2009-04-05

Posts: 30

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

"You should always upgrade the system with pacman -Syu and never upgrade single packages"

Why? What's makes a difference?

Thanks in advance!

foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

Posts: 705

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Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

"You should always upgrade the system with pacman -Syu and never upgrade single packages"

Why? What's makes a difference?

Thanks in advance!

Because packages are built against current versions of the libraries they depend on. If you do partial upgrades, it's quite possible that you'll end up with applications that won't work because your system won't have the correct versions of the required libraries.

Marcel-

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From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

"You should always upgrade the system with pacman -Syu and never upgrade single packages"

But, to remember everyone of the point of this discussion, that's not the cause of the problem that is raised here. That's caused by installing a package that is build against a newer library, which replaces a dependency of a currently installed program, e.g. Bash.

Is there a solution to this problem?

jeroenv

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Registered: 2004-11-29

Posts: 36

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

I agree, what's the point of maintaining dependency rules if the system can still break on dependency issues after partial updates. What guarantee do i have that a pacman -Syu would not create even bigger problems?

In e.g. the bash 3.2 depend file it says:
readline >= 5.2

Apparently this should have been:
readline == 5.2

texnguy

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Registered: 2009-03-10

Posts: 3

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

Just remember: never run pacman -Sy <package> for upgrading. Use -Syu !

I know the post is old, but still relevant! Thank you for your post higher up in the thread. My issue was caused by simply installing python ... of course pacman decided it needed to upgrade my kernel at the same time, resulting in the error. I changed vtc to try and log in to fix it, but as soon as i entered my password and hit enter, the error would pop up and log me out. Thought I was hosed for a bit.

deadshox

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 35

Re: lireadline.so.5 causing problems

Thx for this! It saved my Day.