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harlekin

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-07-13

Posts: 408

vlc not available

Hallo.
I just wanted to watch a few episodes of family guy but launching my vlc player won't wok as usual:

$ vlc
vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I deceided to update vlc but pacman failed to get its filesize and even crashes:

# pacman -Sy vlc
:: Synchronizing package databases... 
:: current is up to date
 extra                    [################] 100%     267K    62.3K/s  00:00:04
:: unstable is up to date
:: community is up to date

Targets: dbus-glib-0.71-1 hal-0.5.8.1-3 vlc-0.8.5-7

Total Package Size:   6.1 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] Y

:: Retrieving packages from current...
 dbus-glib-0.71-1         [################] 100%     136K    41.5K/s  00:00:03

:: Retrieving packages from extra...
 hal-0.5.8.1-3            [################] 100%     393K    76.2K/s  00:00:05
warning: failed to get filesize for vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz

failed downloading vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.archlinux.org: 550 Failed to open file.

warning: failed to get filesize for vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz

failed downloading vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.nethat.com: 550 vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz: No such file or directory

warning: failed to get filesize for vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz

failed downloading vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz from ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu: 550 Failed to open file.

warning: failed to get filesize for vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz

failed downloading vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz from ftp.ibiblio.org: 550 vlc-0.8.5-7.pkg.tar.gz: No such file or directory

connect: Connection refused
error: cannot connect to archlinux.antesis.org
*** glibc detected *** pacman: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x086a8ba8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e5e750]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_free+0x84)[0xb7e5fda4]
pacman[0x80604ee]
pacman[0x805b731]
pacman[0x805bdeb]
pacman[0x80523c6]
pacman[0x8055335]
/lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xd8)[0xb7e10808]
pacman[0x804a0a1]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-0806b000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 8035015    /usr/bin/pacman
0806b000-0806c000 rw-p 00023000 03:43 8035015    /usr/bin/pacman
0806c000-086c4000 rw-p 0806c000 00:00 0          [heap]
b7c00000-b7c21000 rw-p b7c00000 00:00 0 
b7c21000-b7d00000 ---p b7c21000 00:00 0 
b7dcd000-b7ddb000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 3112987    /lib/libresolv-2.4.so
b7ddb000-b7ddd000 rw-p 0000d000 03:43 3112987    /lib/libresolv-2.4.so
b7ddd000-b7ddf000 rw-p b7ddd000 00:00 0 
b7dea000-b7df4000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 7998161    /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7df4000-b7df5000 rw-p 00009000 03:43 7998161    /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
b7df5000-b7dfb000 rw-p b7df5000 00:00 0 
b7dfb000-b7f15000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 3112966    /lib/libc-2.4.so
b7f15000-b7f17000 r--p 00119000 03:43 3112966    /lib/libc-2.4.so
b7f17000-b7f19000 rw-p 0011b000 03:43 3112966    /lib/libc-2.4.so
b7f19000-b7f1c000 rw-p b7f19000 00:00 0 
b7f1c000-b7f2d000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 7998246    /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
b7f2d000-b7f2e000 rw-p 00011000 03:43 7998246    /usr/lib/libz.so.1.2.3
b7f37000-b7f3b000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 3112988    /lib/libnss_dns-2.4.so
b7f3b000-b7f3d000 rw-p 00003000 03:43 3112988    /lib/libnss_dns-2.4.so
b7f3d000-b7f45000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 3112994    /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so
b7f45000-b7f47000 rw-p 00007000 03:43 3112994    /lib/libnss_files-2.4.so
b7f47000-b7f4a000 rw-p b7f47000 00:00 0 
b7f4a000-b7f4b000 r-xp b7f4a000 00:00 0          [vdso]
b7f4b000-b7f65000 r-xp 00000000 03:43 3112965    /lib/ld-2.4.so
b7f65000-b7f66000 r--p 00019000 03:43 3112965    /lib/ld-2.4.so
b7f66000-b7f67000 rw-p 0001a000 03:43 3112965    /lib/ld-2.4.so
bfc38000-bfc4e000 rw-p bfc38000 00:00 0          [stack]
Aborted

Any suggestions? (:

edit: Well. This worked at least but I guess it's not the recommended way:

# ln -s /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2

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phrakture

Arch Overlord

From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: vlc not available

That's the antesis mirror.... it's goofed.  Remove it and try again?

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nachete

Member

From: Pontevedra, Galicia, Spain

Registered: 2006-06-26

Posts: 12

Re: vlc not available

I have exactly the same problem with (I think) all the apps that depend on libdbus after my last upgrade:

rhythmbox: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

vlc: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Etc, etc, etc...

Is the ln -s way a recomendable solution?

edited: I've solved it using ln -s. Maybe it isn't the most suitable way, but it seems to work... Time will tell... 

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: vlc not available

No, 'ln -s' is not a recommended solution. Probably your mirror hasn't fully sync yet. Wait a couple of days or switch temporarily to  a more up-to-date mirror.