On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 06:11:43PM +0100, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > On 02/08/14 12:21, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Today I started some ports' upgrade and icu went from 50.1.2 to 52.1. > > > > As soon as this happened, lots of applications are not working anymore. > > E.G. > > > >> % firefox > >> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so: > >> Shared object "libicui18n.so.50" not found, required by "libxul.so" > >> Couldn't load XPCOM. > > > > > > > > While everything is recompiling (which will take several hours, since at > > least FireFox, ThunderBird and LibreOffice, among others, are affected), > > I am left wondering what went wrong: usually backup libraries are kept > > in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg... > > > > So: > >> # cd /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ > >> # ls |grep icu > >> libicudata.so.50.1.2 > >> libicui18n.so.50.1.2 > >> libicuio.so.50.1.2 > >> libicule.so.50.1.2 > >> libiculx.so.50.1.2 > >> libicutest.so.50.1.2 > >> libicutu.so.50.1.2 > >> libicuuc.so.50.1.2 > > > > I have an idea: > > > >> # ln -s libicui18n.so.50.1.2 libicui18n.so.50 > > > > Now: > >> % firefox > >> XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/local/lib/firefox/libxul.so: > >> Shared object "libicuuc.so.50" not found, required by "libxul.so" > >> Couldn't load XPCOM. > > > > Hmmm... so, to make it short: > >> # ln -s libicudata.so.50.1.2 libicu > >> # ln -s libicudata.so.50.1.2 libicudata.so.50 > > > > and Firefox and LibreOffice are starting again. > > > > > > > > Hope this can help someone. > > OTOH I would have expected this to happen automatically; shouldn't it? > > > > bye & Thanks > > av. > > > > P.S. > >> # uname -a > >> ... 10.0-RELEASE ... amd64 > > BTW LibreOffice was not bumped, so it would not be recompiled by > "portupgrade -r icu" or similar. > > bye > av. LibreOffice has been bumped to chase that. All the mozilla soft has been forgotten but they were the only one forgotten and they have been bumped a couple of hours laters.
regards, Bapt
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