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b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 691

(SOLVED) problem with dbus and pacman

For whatever silly reason, I did a 'pacman -S dbus' to make sure I had it installed and the result has really screwed up dbus. Although pacman reads it as installed, other programs don't and I can't start anything that relies on dbus (like thunar for one). Trying to start thunar for example:

thunar: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

Also, everytime I try to install anything I got the following error message from pacman a dozen times or so before it proceeds:

error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/local//dbus/1.0.2-4/depends: no such file or directory

what happened. How do I get dbus back and working?

Last edited by b9anders (2008-01-14 10:51:40)

jacko

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Registered: 2007-11-23

Posts: 840

Re: (SOLVED) problem with dbus and pacman

I might not know what happened, but maybe u can re-install base group packages from the CD and then boot back into arch linux and update from there?

I have also setup a install from within another linux OS, follow the wiki. It uses a pacman.static that is self reliant upon itself. U should not need any dependencies like dbus for that to work. Maybe u can use pacman.static to fix your problem.

Just a few ideas for you to ponder on.

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: (SOLVED) problem with dbus and pacman

Delete the /var/lib/pacman/local/dbus-1.0.2-4/ directory and reinstall with pacman -Sf dbus.

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b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

Posts: 691

Re: (SOLVED) problem with dbus and pacman

Delete the /var/lib/pacman/local/dbus-1.0.2-4/ directory and reinstall with pacman -Sf dbus.

that did it. thanks a million.:D