On Sunday 18 October 2009 12:36:07 am Eric Bélanger wrote:

It looks like you have installed a x86_64 packages on a i686 system. Reinstall qt3 and make sure it's a package for i686 (I assume here that your system is i686).

Stranger things have happened... I check on my laptop that it still happily runs kde3 apps, and it does without any problems. So I'll check the other box and reinstall qt3 and report back. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

On Sunday 18 October 2009 03:54:54 am David C. Rankin wrote:

On Sunday 18 October 2009 12:36:07 am Eric Bélanger wrote:

Oh,... you are good :)

[03:51 supersff:/home/david] # l /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28017189 2009-10-07 23:49 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt-4.5.3-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10646153 2009-06-17 19:26 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt3-3.3.8-11-i686.pkg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10619044 2009-10-13 11:58 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt3-3.3.8-13-i686.pkg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10599475 2009-04-28 21:14 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt3- enhanced-3.3.8-1-i686.pkg.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11185765 2009-10-07 23:37 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt3- enhanced-3.3.8-26-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz

Somehow, how I don't know, but somehow I did get an x86_64 package installed on this box. Go figure ;-) (too much Scotch ):p

Solved - The Arch Repository is Messed up. I just removed qt3- enhanced-3.3.8-26-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz with 'pacman -R -d qt3-enhanced', then deleted the file from my machine with: rm /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt3-enhanced-3.3.8-26-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz then I reinstalled the package with 'pacman -Sy qt3-enhanced' and I'll be damned if it didn't install /var/cache/pacman/pkg/qt3- enhanced-3.3.8-26-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz again! ......That's when the lightbulb winked on and when the feeling of SHAME begin to settle in on my consciousness. Further investigation revealed that on 10/8 when I had updated my box and the new pacman package was installed, I used the pacman.conf from an earlier update of my x86_64 Arch server as a "go-by". It would seem that there was one occasion with the community repository that an 'x86_64' did not get replaced by and 'i686', thus 'the loose nut behind the keyboard' had installed some: 04:32 supersff:~> l /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*x86_64* | wc -l 52 Yes FIFTY-TWO x86_64 packages on my fine little i686 box. (SMACK to make sure I have learned the lesson and SMACK, just for good measure) Now it seems I need to stroll on over to the bug I opened against the intel graphics dying after updates -- and quietly close it diplomatically ;-) Now to clumbisly stumble through removing 52 x86_64 packages and reinstalling the same, but correct i686 package: drum-roll... ## Parse packages to create a list of packages for removal for i in $(ls -1 /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*x86_64*); do pkg=${i##*/pkg/}; echo "$pkg"; done > x86_64pkgs while read line; do pkg=${line%%.*}; pkg=${pkg%-*}; echo -n " $pkg" >> rmlist; done<x86_64pkgs ## Setup the package list as a removal script (edit rmlist and add): #!/bin/sh pacman -R -d (before the string of packages) ## Execute the removal of x86_64 packages sh rmlist ## Setup the package list as an install script (edit rmlist and change -R -d to -Sy): #!/bin/sh pacman -Sy (before the string of packages) ## Execute the reinstall of i686 packages sh rmlist Done!! Wohoo!! the box is back in fighting shape -- now I'm going to bed! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

On 10/18/2009 06:30 AM, David C. Rankin wrote:

......That's when the lightbulb winked on and when the feeling of SHAME begin to settle in on my consciousness. Further investigation revealed that on 10/8 when I had updated my box and the new pacman package was installed, I used the pacman.conf from an earlier update of my x86_64 Arch server as a "go-by". It would seem that there was one occasion with the community repository that an 'x86_64' did not get replaced by and 'i686', thus 'the loose nut behind the keyboard' had installed some:

Good Linux debugging clue: when you're having a bunch of major problems that no one else is, it usually means you did something stupid that no one else did! :-) Seriously, though, I was reading all your messages going by, and kept thinking: there must be something weird he did to his box that's causing him all these problems, because Arch rarely gives me this much grief - especially with recent upgrades, as they've all gone very smoothly. Anyway, all's well that ends well, and glad to hear you solved the problem! DR