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DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

filesystem questions

i've upgraded today the filesystem package.
two questions:
first, i get this message about /var/lock:

[2008-03-08 19:41] starting full system upgrade
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.
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[2008-03-08 19:41] warning: extracting /etc/shadow as /etc/shadow.pacnew
[2008-03-08 19:41] warning: /etc/ld.so.conf installed as /etc/ld.so.conf.pacnew
[2008-03-08 19:41] warning: directory permissions differ on var/lock/
filesystem: 755  package: 1777
[2008-03-08 19:41] upgraded filesystem (2007.11-6 -> 2008.03-1)

i never touched /var/lock.
second, i've noticed that the new ld.so.conf is empty, but my old ld.so.conf has some entries.
ld.so.conf:

#
# /etc/ld.so.conf
#

/usr/X11R6/lib

# End of file
/usr/lib/libfakeroot
/opt/kde/lib
/opt/qt/lib

i guess libfakeroot is from makepkg/fakeroot and the other two are from kdemod.
is that right?

vlad

chimeric

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-07

Posts: 254

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Re: filesystem questions

i've upgraded today the filesystem package.
two questions:
first, i get this message about /var/lock:

[2008-03-08 19:41]
[2008-03-08 19:41] warning: directory permissions differ on var/lock/
filesystem: 755  package: 1777
[2008-03-08 19:41] upgraded filesystem (2007.11-6 -> 2008.03-1)

i never touched /var/lock.

Hi,

see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9778 and http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=45042.

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: filesystem questions

ok, thank you!

dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 1,007

Re: filesystem questions

What about /etc/ld.so.conf.pacnew? Is this file now meant to be empty?

It seems important, as according to 'man ldconfig':

ldconfig creates the necessary links and cache to the most recent shared libraries found in the directories specified on the command line, in the file /etc/ld.so.conf

All i've got in the old one is '/usr/X11R6/lib' and '/usr/lib/libfakeroot'. I would presume there wasn't anything in ld.so.conf before I installed xorg and fakeroot, although that would make a new ld.so.config.pacnew file seem uneccessary, unless all symbolic links created in the file are now rendered useless?

Last edited by dyscoria (2008-03-09 12:40:19)

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Re: filesystem questions

1777 permissions on /var/lock make sense, although I do not remember changing them either. You do not want process X to remove lock files created by process Y.

As for ld.so.conf, you don't want it to be empty, indeed. Keep the old one, trash the new one. KDE stuff is still in /opt, so...

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tigrmesh

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Registered: 2007-12-11

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Re: filesystem questions

What about /etc/ld.so.conf.pacnew? Is this file now meant to be empty?
*snipI
All i've got in the old one is '/usr/X11R6/lib' and '/usr/lib/libfakeroot'.

/usr/X11R6/lib is gone.