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Archdove

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Registered: 2011-09-23

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[SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

Hi

I did recently an update which involved qt. This broke my Virtualbox installation which ist pretty bad as i need it for school.
Doing a pacman -U qt will give me lots of messages like:

/usr/share/qt/translations/qt_pl.qm exists in filesystem
qt: /usr/share/qt/translations/qt_pt.qm exists in filesystem
qt: /usr/share/qt/translations/qt_ru.qm exists in filesystem
qt: /usr/share/qt/translations/qt_sk.qm exists in filesystem
qt: /usr/share/qt/translations/qt_sl.qm exists in filesystem

Endling with. "No packages updated".

The pacman Wiki wants me to check the owner for each file which is not practicable becouse of the number of files.

So what do i do?

Thanks.

Last edited by Archdove (2012-03-29 15:22:45)

jdarnold

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

Maybe do a pacman -R qt, forcing if necessary? Then reinstall it?

But what do you mean by "broke" anyway?

Archdove

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

Sorry for beeing unprecise:

Broken means i get this message when starting Virtualbox:

~]$ virtualbox
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4: file too short

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

If the output of

stat -c %s $(find /var/lib/pacman/local -name "qt-*")/files

is '0' (zero) or you get an error saying 'No such file or directory', run

pacman -Sf qt

to reinstall qt.

alphaniner

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

I assume pacman was asking you to check for files not owned by root.  There are ways to make the computer do all the work for you and return a result in a few seconds.  But in this case I think it's pointless.

Last edited by alphaniner (2012-03-29 14:00:56)

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

I assume pacman was asking you to check for files not owned by root.  There are ways to make the computer do all the work for you and return a result in a few seconds.  But in this case I think it's pointless.

What are you referring to?

alphaniner

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

You mean the 'ways' I mentioned?  I just meant one could create a compound command to pull out all the filenames from the error message and print out any that aren't owned by root.  I pieced together a kludge using pacman -Ql, but didn't post it because it would generally be overkill:

grep -v "root" < <(pacman -Ql qt |awk '{print $2}' |while read i;do [[ "$i" =~ /$ ]] || ls -l "$i" ;done)

It also filters out all directories including those that are unique to the package, which is another shortcoming.

Last edited by alphaniner (2012-03-29 14:21:00)

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karol

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

Ah, now I get it :-) Indeed, it helps, but doesn't actually fix anything.

Archdove

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

So Pacman -Rf qt dit the trick. Altough i did try it before an it did nothing.
Thanks for helping me out!

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

So Pacman -Rf qt dit the trick.

[karol@black ~]$ pacman -Rf qt
error: invalid option

Weird, it doesn't work for me.

Archdove

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

Yes karol

Because it's actually pacman -Sf qt

Sorry for that...

karol

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Re: [SOLVED] qt update - file conflicts - breaks Virtualbox

That's what I thought :-)