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#1 2010-01-20 11:24:17

jithin1987
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From: Bangalore
Registered: 2009-09-12
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system screwed after todays upgrade

kdm is not startting at all.
When I run startkde it says $DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to X server .

On running startx it revealed more info that startkde cannot start kdeinit4 because of error in  loading libpng12.so.0 because no such file.

Downgrading packages at the moment


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Jithin

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#2 2010-01-20 11:37:11

jithin1987
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Registered: 2009-09-12
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Re: system screwed after todays upgrade

Seems downgrading saved the day.

But still plymouth is not starting its complainig on libpng12.so.0.
Also I am getting some udevd warning that its already started.


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Jithin

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#3 2010-01-20 11:38:53

mikesd
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Re: system screwed after todays upgrade

libpng requires ~100 packages to be rebuilt. There was a warning posted to the arch-dev-public mailing list stating very clearly that updating from [testing] wasn't recommended until people have a chance to rebuild their packages.

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#4 2010-01-20 11:49:19

wonder
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Re: system screwed after todays upgrade

disable testing and do pacman -Suu. as @mikesd said, you should be subscribed if you use testing repo.

Last edited by wonder (2010-01-20 11:49:49)


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