[arch-general] libgdbm.so.4 breakage?

[Ionut Biru]

On 11/30/2011 12:09 PM, Simon Perry wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I was about to lodge a bug regarding this, but now I'm not sure if it's
> something my system is doing or...
> 
> Anyway, tonight I needed to RDP to a work box, and both Remmina and
> Vinagre both failed to run:
> 
> % remmina
> remmina: error while loading shared libraries: libgdbm.so.4: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> % vinagre
> vinagre: error while loading shared libraries: libgdbm.so.4: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> So I wrote some scripts, and discovered the following packages are
> expecting this library (see http://pastebin.com/DyWw74iK for the complete
> output of my script):
> 
> apr-util 1.3.12-3
> avahi 0.6.30-6
> python2 2.7.2-4
> python 3.2.2-2
> ruby 1.9.3_p0-2
> subversion 1.6.17-7
> vinagre 3.2.2-1
> zsh 4.3.12-3
> 
> After seeing this, I tried svn:
> 
> % svn --help
> svn: error while loading shared libraries: libgdbm.so.4: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
> 
> Zsh works still, luckily... :)
> 
> I have an entry in pacman.log that says I upgraded gdbm on:
> 
> [2011-01-13 19:57] upgraded gdbm (1.8.3-7 -> 1.8.3-8)
> [2011-11-07 01:00] upgraded gdbm (1.8.3-8 -> 1.8.3-9)
> 
> The reason I haven't lodged an FS is because I downgraded to gdbm
> 1.8.3-8 (from Janurary!) and it doesn't have libgdbm.so.4 either, so
> I'm not sure if there's something weird on my system or what. I'm
> confused and astonished that I haven't noticed it until tonight.
> 
> "pacman -Ql gdbm" clearly states no reference to libgdbm.so.4, just
> libgdbm.so.3 ...
> 
> Halp... Multipass...
> 


have you tried pacman -Syu ?

-- 
Ionuț

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