[arch-general] upgrading postfix - newaliases: error while loading libdb-5.1.so -- ignore?

[David C. Rankin]

Guys,

   This may just be on i686, but I'm trying to figure out what happened. 
During update this morning, postfix refused to start. The upgrade error was:

(41/46) upgrading postfix 
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newaliases: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-5.1.so: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory

   Attempting to start postfix without the &>/dev/null gave the same error (duh..)

[09:27 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # /usr/sbin/postfix start
/usr/sbin/postfix: error while loading shared libraries: libdb-5.1.so: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory

   Looking for the file, I find it here:

[09:27 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # locate libdb-5.1.so
<snip archroot dirs>
/usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so

   Looking for ownership -- it looks like the file is just gone:

[09:28 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # pacman -Qo /usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so
error: failed to read file '/usr/lib/libdb-5.1.so': No such file or directory

[09:28 providence:/var/cache/pacman/pkg] # l /usr/lib/libdb*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277786 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.2.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1789876 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.2.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      12 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb-5.so -> libdb-5.2.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2277786 Jun 14 19:30 /usr/lib/libdb.a
<snip>

   OK, it looks like a missing link from db 5.2.28-1. On x86_64, I have the 
same thing, but postfix restarts just fine. What do we need to do to get 
postfix to look for libdb-5.2.so instead of libdb-5.1.so on x86?


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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.