[arch-general] spamd failure

[pete]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:36:59 +0100
Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:

> On 16.03.2012 21:25, pete wrote:
> > /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so:
> > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> > 
> > but 
> > locate libperl.so   gives 
> > /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE/libperl.so 
> 
> Don't trust locate. It uses a database which can easily be out of
> date.
> 
> > 
> > but there is no libperl.so in    /usr/lib/perl5/core_perl/CORE/
> > 
> > this was working fine untill yesterdays pacman -Suy   which
> > completed without a reported problem
> 
> `pacman -S perl`
> 
> Did your system crash during/after the upgrade? Is your disk full
> (space and inodes)? Is/was your file system broken and fsck
> "repaired" it?
> 

Hummm Hi ..


Well disk plenty of space 76Gb free   after doing pacman -S perl  i am
now getting 

 Starting spamd
[BUSY] Mar 16 20:48:00.154 [2051] error: spamd: unable to determine
home directory for user 'spamd' spamd: unable to determine home
directory for user 'spamd' [FAIL] 

This is one of those times when things get silly  ho humm 

disk is ok just run an fsck on it n9o erros found ..

Pete .


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