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Beetlenut

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From: Taipei Taiwan

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 126

gnome 8 to no gnome

I updated gnome8 to gnome10 and now get this when trying to startx....

gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries: libhowl.so.0 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

wdemoss

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From: WV - USA

Registered: 2004-01-18

Posts: 222

Re: gnome 8 to no gnome

install howl and file a bug report so that where ever this dependency is failing to get declared gets fixed.

$ pacman -S howl

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T-Dawg

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From: Charlotte, NC

Registered: 2005-01-29

Posts: 2,736

Re: gnome 8 to no gnome

there's a pacman bug that looses files, did you try to remove then reinstall?

Beetlenut

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From: Taipei Taiwan

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 126

Re: gnome 8 to no gnome

yes I removed gnome before updating. I will pacman -S howl later today and see how it goes.

Beetlenut

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From: Taipei Taiwan

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 126

Re: gnome 8 to no gnome

Now I get gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries: libwrap.so.0 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory

zeppelin

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2004-03-05

Posts: 807

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Re: gnome 8 to no gnome

€ locate libwrap.so.0
/usr/lib/libwrap.so.0
/usr/lib/libwrap.so.0.7.6
[nk@Freud gajim]€ pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libwrap.so.0
/usr/lib/libwrap.so.0 is owned by tcp_wrappers 7.6-6

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