Lately I started to notice minor problems and weird behaviour with the way gaim was dealing with my friends’ avatars on MSN. Ok, I know it’s not something vital, but sometimes a little of eye candy is what you need… anyway: I noticed that with people that have already upgraded to Windows Live Messenger (the evolution of MSN messenger? O_o) gaim got crazy, messing up the avatar and pratically not displaying any of them anymore for those contacts. I was about as sure as I’m still called Federico that the problem wasn’t directly gaim-related, but that the cause was probably somewhere in a new way the new impressive (yes, sarcasm is in excess in this post tonight…) MSN client of mother Microsoft has chosen to manage the avatars… but hey, I was still stuck with gaim-2.0.0_beta3-r2, and was worth a try updating.
Gosh, mommy alwyas tells me it’s better to stay with what you have, if it’s working. But I’m not used to listen to much to what she tells anyway, so I emerged the last beta6 available in portage. It’s uglier than how it was before, but seems definitely more stable and less buggy than the previous beta version, which is good.
But then the problems came… apparently having updated gaim resulted in a now “broken” library linking for the d-bus sub-system. ARGH! (someone could explain to me what exactly d-bus is on my system for, after all? It’s always a pain messing with it and its dependencies). A whole bunch of program were by then complaining with the same message:
error while loading shared libraries: libdbus-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
and of course not starting at all.
After a couple of re-emerging of some of them, hoping for a re-linking of the missing library or the installation of it in a new slot, I found out I was still in the same situation as above.
What to do? Of course, google it.
This was te relevant result. Following this post and doing:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.2
solved the problem just fine, even revdep-rebuil stopped complaining. It probably isn’t the cleanest solution around, but it’s working just fine.
Sometimes my Gentoo just scares me (not that this won’t make me upgrade again the next time I’d feel the itch :D).
Curson - I found your blog from a comment you made on mine a while back. Just wanted to say hi. I’m a big fan of the assortment of beers picture on the post below. I hope somebody does that for one of my birthdays! Take care.
Mhm… when is your birthday and where do you live? :P
Thank you for stopping by and saying “hi”.