Odd library problems lately

NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2613

Hello all,

Last night I logged into my main stable machine, and found that KMix no longer had any mixers. So, I had to rebuild alsa-utils, my sound card modules for the kernel, and kmix. This morning, I went to open an OpenOffice Calc file, and it failed to open with an error regarding libicuuc.so.38: no file or directory. Instead of doing the revdep-rebuild which wanted to rebuild OpenOffice, I decided to use the binary version for once in my life. I'm just wondering why these errors are coming up now on my machine that has been rock-solid stable for years.

The only thing I can think of is that it might have something to do with the switch to ext4 a few weeks ago. How would I go about finding the source of these odd problems? I certainly hope it isn't an ext4 problem, because I changed all my machines to that filesystem, and just got done with a clean installation on my netbook using ext4.

Any ideas on where to being troubleshooting?
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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Tue Apr 28, 2009 9:04 pm Post subject:

I know you won't want to read this, but you might have to move your file systems back to what they were. I have read of other problems with ext4, some fairly serious. To my mind, that means there are still some bugs in the mix. Not a good thing for a file system. Since it's the last thing that changed before the troubles began, simple logic tells you that it is the problem.

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NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2613

I figured that this suggestion might be coming, and I appreciate your honesty. I'm going to let my main machine go for a little bit longer and see if anything else happens. I'm just really hoping that I don't have to redo my netbook because I JUST got everything installed the way I want it (sans power management, and the other little quirks nobody has fixed yet).

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pappy_mcfae · Posted: Wed Apr 29, 2009 5:02 am Post subject:

You could always do a stage5 on the laptop. That way, you fire up into the same setup you have now, except for a different file system.

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NathanZachary · Moderator Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Posts: 2613

Thanks for the information Josh! I was certainly hoping that the problem wasn't related to ext4. Also, I still haven't figured out what the problem could have been regarding my ALSA modules, but that was fixed by rebuilding my kernel, alsa-utils, and kmix (not sure which one actually did the trick). As an interesting sidenote, I decided to use the OpenOffice binary (which I've never done before), and it surprisingly loads up faster than the source version. I have no idea how that could be, but the startup time differential is very obvious.

Again, thank you so much for the information regarding the Portage utilities, and the breakage regarding OpenOffice. I had found the information about ICU just by searching online, but I didn't know that there was an update to it recently.
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