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m_ad

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Registered: 2009-09-24

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[SOLVED] Big issue after upgrade!

Last night I updated my system fine. However, after noticing how slow my recent updates had been (39 kb/s) I changed the server in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.

Today, I did a 'pacman -Syu' and I was really surprised at how many packages needed to be updated just 24 hours or so after I had just updated. I didn't think anything of it and updated them. I also selected yes to replacing kernel-headers with kernel-api-headers, as my research suggested it didn't harm anything.

I suspect this has to do with a db sync error or something, since I had selected a different server in my mirrorlist. The problem is, I haven't found one application that I can load successfully. Therefore, I have no idea how to post my pacman.log.

firefox comes back "Couldn't load XPCOM."
vim comes back "vim: error while loading shared libraries: libpng12.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory"

What can I do?

Last edited by m_ad (2010-02-05 20:09:03)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Big issue after upgrade!

same problem like a lot of users did in this forum. you neglected unsupported packages.

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orschiro

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Re: [SOLVED] Big issue after upgrade!

On my system it helped to reinstall cairo respectively cairo-lcd.

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m_ad

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Registered: 2009-09-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Big issue after upgrade!

same problem like a lot of users did in this forum. you neglected unsupported packages.

Neglected unsupported packages?

On my system it helped to reinstall cairo respectively cairo-lcd.

Let me try this.

Last edited by m_ad (2010-02-05 19:11:43)

wonder

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Re: [SOLVED] Big issue after upgrade!

same problem like a lot of users did in this forum. you neglected unsupported packages.

Neglected unsupported packages?
.

pacman -Qm

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m_ad

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Registered: 2009-09-24

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Re: [SOLVED] Big issue after upgrade!

same problem like a lot of users did in this forum. you neglected unsupported packages.

Neglected unsupported packages?
.

pacman -Qm

Upgrading cairo-lcd fixed the issue.

wonder, what did I do wrong during the update?

Last edited by m_ad (2010-02-05 19:33:56)

orschiro

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Re: [SOLVED] Big issue after upgrade!

Actually nothing, but you had to upgrade cairo first before upgrading all the other programs that depend on cairo. I had exactly the same issue.

Last edited by orschiro (2010-02-05 19:51:57)

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sdolim

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Registered: 2010-01-20

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Re: [SOLVED] Big issue after upgrade!

We tend to forget that stuff from AUR (like cairo-lcd) is not included in system upgrades.  But if we have replaced a vital part of the system "plumbing" with something from AUR (like cairo-lcd), then we must make sure it is kept up to date manually.

I recommend an AUR-aware pacman-like program, like Xyne's bauerbill, for people in this situation.  It takes care of both steps at once:

$ bauerbill -Syu
--> Searching for upgradable repo packages...
--> Searching for upgradable AUR packages...