[arch-general] After installation of dbus-1.2.3-3: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[Jan de Groot]

On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 20:15 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I'm using the core, extra, community and unstable repos on my 
> ArchLinux i686 setup and just now did a "pacman -Syu". Since then,
> I cannot start Gnome (and other programs):
> 
> --($ /Arch/Cache)-- avahi-browse
> avahi-browse: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> --($ /Arch/Cache)-- gnome-terminal 
> gnome-terminal: error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> And indeed, there's no "libdbus-1.so.3" file on my system anymore.
> 
> I updated the following packages:
> 
> Pakete (8): bzr-1.8-1 [4.28 MB]  dbus-1.2.3-3 [0.03 MB]  fuse-2.7.4-1 [0.14 MB]  
>     libsigc++2.0-2.2.3-1 [4.43 MB]  man-pages-3.11-1 [4.17 MB]  
>     openoffice-base-3.0.0-2 [140.99 MB]  sdl-1.2.13-3 [0.60 MB]  tzdata-2008h-1 [0.53 MB]  
> 
> I suppose the update of "dbus-1.2.3-3" caused the problem.
> 
> Was it correct that libdbus-1.so.3 got deleted?
> 
> FWIW, I also filed this as a bug -> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11831

Let me guess, dbus-core was not pulled in because you installed things
with the -d flag?
It's impossible that pacman allows upgrading to dbus 1.2.3-3 without
installing dbus-core.