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.
