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Old 12-24-2016, 06:52 AM   #1
tomac.pl
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64-bit current: issue with xfce4-terminal and ncurses after upgrade


Hi everyone

Today, after upgrading my slackware64-current, I encountered the following error when trying to run xfce4-terminal:

Code:
xfce4-terminal: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib64/../lib64/libncurses.so.5: file too short
Everything started to work correctly after I removed the following symbolic links:

Code:
/usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5
/usr/lib64/libncursesw.so.5
Not sure if this is what I should've done, but at least it fixed issue for me

Trying to find cause of this issue, I found that the install/doinst.sh script in the ncurses-6.0-x86_64-1.txz package starts with the following lines:

Code:
# Remove possible residue from ncurses-5.x:
rm -f /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
rm -f /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5
Perhaps there should be /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib (of course, only in 64-bit package)?

EDIT: Related thread, which I haven't noticed before opening this one: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...es-4175596048/

Last edited by tomac.pl; 12-24-2016 at 07:32 AM. Reason: Link to related thread.
 
Old 12-24-2016, 11:07 AM   #2
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I also confirm the XFCE terminal error on Slackware64-current.
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