[arch-general] After update package fontconfig causes ldconfig issue

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 09:38 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 09:17 +0200, Laurent Carlier wrote:
> > Le samedi 8 septembre 2012 07:23:18 Ralf Mardorf a écrit :
> > > When an update today run ldconfig, I noticed that there's something
> > > wrong, caused by an update from yesterday.
> > > 
> > > [root at archlinux spinymouse]# ldconfig
> > > ldconfig: /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1 is not an ELF file - it has the
> > > wrong magic bytes at the start.
> > > 
> > > ldconfig: /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1.6.2 is not an ELF file - it has
> > > the wrong magic bytes at the start.
> > > 
> > > ldconfig: /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so is not an ELF file - it has the
> > > wrong magic bytes at the start.
> > > 
> > > [root at archlinux spinymouse]# pacman -Qi fontconfig | grep Install\ Date
> > > Install Date   : Fri Sep  7 07:18:11 2012
> > > [root at archlinux spinymouse]# pacman -Ql fontconfig | grep libfontconfig
> > > fontconfig /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so
> > > fontconfig /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
> > > fontconfig /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.6.2
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Ralf
> > 
> > All these files are from lib32-fontconfig package. And they are all correct:
> > $ readelf -h  /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1
> > ELF Header:
> >   Magic:   7f 45 4c 46 01 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 
> >   Class:                             ELF32
> >   Data:                              2's complement, little endian
> >   Version:                           1 (current)
> >   OS/ABI:                            UNIX - System V
> >   ABI Version:                       0
> >   Type:                              DYN (Shared object file)
> >   Machine:                           Intel 80386
> >   Version:                           0x1
> >   Entry point address:               0x45f0
> >   Start of program headers:          52 (bytes into file)
> >   Start of section headers:          227008 (bytes into file)
> >   Flags:                             0x0
> >   Size of this header:               52 (bytes)
> >   Size of program headers:           32 (bytes)
> >   Number of program headers:         7
> >   Size of section headers:           40 (bytes)
> >   Number of section headers:         27
> >   Section header string table index: 26
> > 
> > 
> > Something must be rotten on your system.
> 
> The only cause for this could be updates.

Or a power blackout I had yesterday. But how should a power blackout
cause a broken header for a lib?

> On my Arch those files aren't
> from lib32-fontconfig.
> 
> [spinymouse at archlinux ~]$ readelf -h  /usr/lib32/libfontconfig.so.1
> readelf: Error: Unable to read in 0x91f2 bytes of section headers
> readelf: Error: Not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the
> start
> [spinymouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi lib32-fontconfig
> Name           : lib32-fontconfig
> Version        : 2.10.1-1
> URL            : None
> Licenses       : None
> Groups         : None
> Provides       : None
> Depends On     : None
> Optional Deps  : None
> Required By    : google-earth  lib32-cairo  lib32-libxft
> Conflicts With : None
> Replaces       : None
> Installed Size :   0.00 KiB
> Packager       : None
> Architecture   : None
> Build Date     : None
> Install Date   : None
> Install Reason : Explicitly installed
> Install Script : No
> Description    : None
> 
> [spinymouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql lib32-fontconfig | grep
> libfontconfig
> [spinymouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Ql fontconfig | grep libfontconfig
> fontconfig /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so
> fontconfig /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1
> fontconfig /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1.6.2
> [spinymouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qi fontconfig
> Name           : fontconfig
> Version        : 2.10.1-2
> [snip]
> 
> Regards,
> Ralf