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cx

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Registered: 2019-08-17

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[SOLVED ftm] Missing libunistring.so.2: partial system breakage

Hi folks,

since my recent (daily) update I can't do much things with my p4 any longer.

First I thought, there's something wrong with my net connecting, because I am not able able to go online.

Yet I can't do even a ping:

ping: error while loeading shared libraries: libunistring.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Idk if this one is related:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=281295

But the same error also appears just when doing "pacman -Qi libunistring"...

Last edited by cx (2022-11-20 10:19:54)

abaumann

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Re: [SOLVED ftm] Missing libunistring.so.2: partial system breakage

Yes, I had to push libunistring, so a lot of packages above now need rebuilds.

But ping should be:

/usr/bin/ping (interpreter => /lib/ld-linux.so.2)
    libcap.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcap.so.2
    libidn2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libidn2.so.0
        libunistring.so.5 => /usr/lib/libunistring.so.5
    libresolv.so.2 => /usr/lib/libresolv.so.2
    libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6

abaumann

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Re: [SOLVED ftm] Missing libunistring.so.2: partial system breakage

It has nothing to do with the upstream bug.. we are just behind here with rebuilds. I lost all build slaves
due to openssl 1.1 to 3.0 transitions, gnu make, libunistring were also not helping.

Let me rebuild and push iputils, just to make sure..

cx

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Re: [SOLVED ftm] Missing libunistring.so.2: partial system breakage

Looking forward to it. ^^

However, atm I can't even regularly update stuff, since, as I said – invoking pacman gives the same error...

Roughly speaking, because of this issue I can't go online any longer, nor can I deal with packages.

So, home come and what options do I have at all?

Also I believe that very missing lib causes the failure of some window managers. While openbox(-session) starts properly, e. g. liquidshell ends up in a garbled screen.

Particular apps behave accordingly:
xfce4-terminal: doesn't work
xterm:      does

Not to mention thunderbird, which works but won't e.g. retrieve mails, because my p4 box can't go online.

Last edited by cx (2022-11-19 15:13:02)

benpicco

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Re: [SOLVED ftm] Missing libunistring.so.2: partial system breakage

For me

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libunistring.so.5 /usr/lib/libunistring.so.2

resolved the libunistring issue. I was lucky that I didn't update when the openssl transition was ongoing though.

cx

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Re: [SOLVED ftm] Missing libunistring.so.2: partial system breakage

@benpicco

Good guess.
I already tried a similar  "ln -s" yesterday which failed – because I looked for a "libunistring1.so" . . .
And I could not query the package "libunistring" because of the missing lib error of pacman.

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libunistring.so.5 /usr/lib/libunistring.so.2

didn't work for me though.

Hence I linked to "/usr/lib/libunistring.so", rebooted – and that one did it, for now.

Anyway I consider this one a contemporary fix, since I can now update, but it looks we will have to wait for a new (p4) package "libunistring", right? – Anyway v1.1-2 on Arch32 seems up-to-date.