[arch-general] Qjackctl won't open since latest updates

[Nigel Henry]

I've had Archlinux "Don't Panic" installed for a while. I installed it because 
someone on another list was having problems with their hda intel soundcard, 
and I wanted to see what was required to upgrade the Alsa driver on 
Archlinux. It seems to be a nice stable distro, pacman, which I havn't used 
before, installs the downloaded packages very quickly. Downloading them, as 
always takes a while, as I'm on dialup.

Anyway. The problem since the latest updates. Qjackctl was working ok, but 
since updates I did last night, it now fails to start.

See below for the updated packages.

[root at myhost djmons]# pacman -Su
:: Starting full system upgrade...
warning: opera: forcing upgrade to version 9.25-2
resolving dependencies...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: xorg-server will be installed before its catalyst-utils dependency
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets: readline-5.2-7  jack-audio-connection-kit-0.109.0-1
         kde-common-3.5.8-3  qt3-3.3.8-6.1  arts-1.5.8-2
         avahi-0.6.20-3  xorg-server-1.4.0.90-5
         catalyst-utils-8.01-1  dbus-qt3-0.62-3  e2fsprogs-1.40.4-1
         x264-20071202-1  ffmpeg-20071204-1  hwd-5.3.2-1  pcre-7.5-1
         kdelibs-3.5.8-4  kdebase-3.5.8-3  qscintilla-qt3-1.7.1-2
         kdebindings-3.5.8-2  poppler-qt3-0.6.3-1
         kdegraphics-3.5.8-3  lvm2-2.02.31-1  mplayer-1.0rc2-2.1
         opera-9.25-2  qt-4.3.3-4  poppler-qt-0.6.3-1  python-2.5.1-5
         pygobject-2.14.1-1  pygtk-2.12.1-1  qca-2.0.0.svn744387-1.1
         qca-qt3-1.0-1  qca-tls-1.0-5  qjackctl-0.3.2-1
         qscintilla-2.1-3  libx86-0.99-1  vbetool-1.0-2  vi-7.1.228-1
         which-2.19-2  wpa_supplicant-0.5.9-1

Total Download Size:    170.33 MB

After these updates Qjackctl would not start from the KDE desktop launcher, 
and see below for output when trying to start it on the CLI.

[djmons at myhost ~]$ qjackctl
qjackctl: error while loading shared libraries: libaudio.so.2: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory
[djmons at myhost ~]$

It's true that there's no such library as libaudio.so.2, at least I can't find 
one.

I have run pacman -Sy, and -Su this evening, and no further updates are 
available. Should I just wait a bit, and see if this problem is resolved, or 
post a bug report? Personally I don't see it as a bug, but more to do with 
Qjackctl being upgraded, and the upgraded version needing a library not yet 
available.

Comments as always welcome.

Nigel.