Downgrading package postgis (2.0.3-1 = 2.0.2-1)

I ran into trouble with a python 3 postgis program which used to work fine:
File "/home/john/workspace/Tkstars/src/dalriada/tk/StarDAO.py", line 31, in __init__
cur.execute("SELECT ra,ST_AsText(ST_TRANSFORM(hyg_line,40001))as line FROM meridians")
psycopg2.OperationalError: could not load library "/usr/lib/postgresql/postgis-2.0.so": /usr/lib/postgresql/postgis-2.0.so: undefined symbol: json_tokener_errors
some struggling later I did:
pacman -U postgis-2.0.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz in /var/cache/pacman/pkg.
Then AOK again:
[john@cart tk]$ python3 StarViewer.py
StarViewer - INFO - StarViewer starting
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 14: reading configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
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Thank you for your reply.
When I ran
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[SOLVED] Unable to boot after downgrading from 2.6.38 to 2.6.37

After experiencing some issues with 2.6.38 and my Intel video card (external monitor support). I decided to go back to 2.6.37 for the time being.
I went into my /var/cache/pacman/pkg and typed in:
pacman -U kernel26-2.6.37-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz kernel26-headers-2.6.37-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-api-headers-2.6.37-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
warning: downgrading package kernel26 (2.6.38.2-1 => 2.6.37-6)
warning: downgrading package kernel26-headers (2.6.38.2-1 => 2.6.37-6)
warning: downgrading package linux-api-headers (2.6.38.1-1 => 2.6.37-1)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (3): kernel26-2.6.37-6 kernel26-headers-2.6.37-6 linux-api-headers-2.6.37-1
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 96.04 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(3/3) checking package integrity [#######################################################] 100%
(3/3) checking for file conflicts [#######################################################] 100%
(1/3) upgrading kernel26 [#######################################################] 100%
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
>>> MKINITCPIO SETUP
>>> ----------------
>>> If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID,
>>> Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf .
>>> More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here:
>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio
>>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
==> Building image "default"
==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.37-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26.img
:: Begin build
:: Parsing hook [base]
:: Parsing hook [udev]
:: Parsing hook [autodetect]
:: Parsing hook [pata]
:: Parsing hook [scsi]
:: Parsing hook [sata]
:: Parsing hook [uresume]
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
:: Parsing hook [keymap]
:: Generating module dependencies
:: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS
==> SUCCESS
==> Building image "fallback"
==> Running command: /sbin/mkinitcpio -k 2.6.37-ARCH -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/kernel26-fallback.img -S autodetect
:: Begin build
:: Parsing hook [base]
:: Parsing hook [udev]
:: Parsing hook [pata]
:: Parsing hook [scsi]
:: Parsing hook [sata]
:: Parsing hook [uresume]
:: Parsing hook [filesystems]
:: Parsing hook [keymap]
:: Generating module dependencies
:: Generating image '/boot/kernel26-fallback.img'...SUCCESS
==> SUCCESS
(2/3) upgrading kernel26-headers [#######################################################] 100%
(3/3) upgrading linux-api-headers [#######################################################] 100%
Then I rebooted and to my surprise I got stuck very early during the boot process.
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 0:0:0:0 [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Waiting 10 seconds for device /dev/sda3
mount: mounting /dev/sda3 on /new_root failed: No such device
ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device
Hopefully I had a 2.6.39rc3-mainline entry in my grub so I selected it and was able to boot as before. I then upgraded from 2.6.37 back to 2.6.38 and guess what... still unable to boot (same message).
What could be the root cause?
Thanks
Alphazo
Last edited by alphazo (2011-04-13 14:09:20)

Finally I got both 2.6.37 and 2.6.38 to boot again but boy it wasn't pretty. Before I start here is what I did before the boot issue.
- Running 2.6.38.2-1 from [Core]
- I also have 2.6.39rc3 from [miffe] repo with a dedicated entry in Grub (testing & recovery)
- Downgraded to 2.6.37 using from /var/cache/pacman/pkg:
pacman -U kernel26-2.6.37-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz kernel26-headers-2.6.37-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-api-headers-2.6.37-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
- Rebooted
- Boot would stop early during the process
- Booted 2.6.39rc3
- Upgraded to 2.6.38.2-1 via
pacman -U kernel26-2.6.38.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz kernel26-headers-2.6.38.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-api-headers-2.6.38.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
- Rebooted
- Boot would stop early during the process
- Booted 2.6.39rc3
- Downgraded to 2.6.37 using from /var/cache/pacman/pkg:
pacman -U kernel26-2.6.37-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz kernel26-headers-2.6.37-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-api-headers-2.6.37-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
- Rebooted
- Boot would stop early during the process
- Booted 2.6.39rc3
- Copied via USB kernel26.img and vmlinuz26 from a friend's PC (running same Arch configuration with 2.6.38 kernel)
- Rebooted
- This time, my friend's 2.6.38 would start
- Upgraded to 2.6.38.2-1 via
pacman -U kernel26-2.6.38.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz kernel26-headers-2.6.38.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-api-headers-2.6.38.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
- Rebooted
- This time, my 2.6.38 would start
- Downgraded to 2.6.37 using from /var/cache/pacman/pkg:
pacman -U kernel26-2.6.37-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz kernel26-headers-2.6.37-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-api-headers-2.6.37-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
- Rebooted
- Again I can boot from 2.6.37
So overall there have been two issues. One when dowgrading from 2.6.38 to 2.6.37 while running 2.6.38 and then when downgrading to 2.6.37 or 2.6.38 while running 2.6.39.
A bit confusing I admit but I think there is a glitch here that does bad thing when generating kernel26.img
Alphazo

Best practice for replacing a package with equivalent, lots of deps

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checking dependencies...
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As you might imagine, I'd prefer not to remove all of those packages just to switch my libgl providing package and then re-install.
In digging around, I found this entry on downgrading packages without respecting dependencies.
Is that the best method for doing what I describe above as well? Would I do something like `pacman -Rd nvidia-utils-beta` (without X running) and then install the packages from extra?

It should be similar to switching to nouveau driver https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau
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# pacman -Rdds nvidia-beta nvidia-utils-beta
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How can I safely and painlessly downgrade catalyst drivers?

The latest version of catalyst is 11.8 and is horrible for me. For example, the computer screen does not turn on after going to sleep (a problem I had with 11.4 as well), when running applications from Terminal I'm constantly getting X errors, and now the latest is that I can't make boxee compile at all, complaining about missing lGL (I've googled around and people suggest reinstalling catalyst or installing mesa).
Disclaimer: I need catalyst drivers and not FOSS ones because of my hardware.
So the question is how would I go about downgrading from 11.8 to 11.7 as painlessly as possible?

Yes and I know how to generally downgrade packages, but catalyst is specific in that it's from AUR, it has many scripts attached to it, there is a kernel module, and my past experiences with trying to downgrade it resulted in a screwed up system (following the wiki)

Downgrade kde 4.4 to kde 4.3

I've just upgraded my system. Now I'm running kde 4.4. Everything is slower. After the system upgrade about 90 % of my ram (1G) is used constantly. Before the upgrade it rarely was more then 30 %. So I want to get rid of kde 4.4 and downgrade is to kde 4.3.
After reading the 'Downgrading packages' wiki it seemed pretty simple:
You may be able to downgrade the package trivially by visiting /var/cache/pacman/pkg on your system and seeing if the older version of the package is stored there. (If you have not run pacman -Scc recently, it should be there). If the package is there, you can install that version using pacman -U pkgname-olderpkgver.pkg.tar.gz.
One problem: there is not just one kde 4.4 package to downgrade. Do I have to downgrade all the different kde packages one by one? Or is there a more elegant way?
Last edited by lnx (2010-02-20 18:57:24)

You could find an outdated mirror and upgrade from there
or
goto /var/cache/pacman/pkg
an do pacman -U kde*4.3*.pkg.tar.gz ( but this will not be a guarantee that everything will be running fine )
Did you try to run kde 4.4 sc with a clean .kde4 folder ?
maybe even backup your entire home dir and start with an empty home ?

2 New packages=BibleTime and Sword

Hi,
I just wanted to post a couple of scripts for BibleTime and Sword
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pkgver=1.5.7a
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="SWORD libraries for Bible programs"
url="http://www.kernel.org"
backup=(etc/modules.conf)
makedepends=('bash' 'mawk')
depends=('glibc' 'zlib' 'curl')
source=(http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/v1.5/sword-1.5.7a.tar.gz) md5sums=('e77801ac7abb7a940eb8a75d725e346f')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-1.5.7
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-insmod-static
make || return 1
make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
#mv $startdir/pkg/usr/sbin $startdir/pkg
#mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/etc
#cp ../modules.conf $startdir/pkg/etc
and heres BibleTime:
pkgname=bibletime
pkgver=1.4.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Bible software that uses the Sword Engine"
url="http://www.bibletime.info/index.html"
license=""
depends=('kdelibs>=3.3.0' 'kdebase>=3.3.0' 'curl>=7.9' 'sword>=1.5.7a')
source=(http://aleron.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/bibletime/bibletime-1.4.1.tar.bz2)
md5sums=('df6ab259b188b8555f9423c629d0b239')
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jftaylor21,
Thanks for the PKGBUILD's. You gave a couple of us in this other thread some help.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=7681
You can get gnomesword there if you're interested. ...but bibletime builds and runs fine without any of the downgraded packages needed for gnomesword.
Thanks again for the help.

Downgraded ATI drivers but cannot find Kernel version

After a recent upgrade to kernel 2.6.39 and ATI catalyst 1.6 drivers, I am getting worse performance.
I have downgraded catalyst-utils to 11.4 but cannot downgrade the catalyst driver to 11.4 as it requires a
kernel <2.6.39
[root@orac boot]# pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/catalyst-11.4-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz
warning: downgrading package catalyst (11.6-1 => 11.4-1)
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "kernel26<2.6.39", a dependency of "catalyst"
:: The following package cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
catalyst
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error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: catalyst: requires kernel26<2.6.39
My problem is I dont know how to find the Arch 2-6.38.4 kernel (or previous version).
The kernel name always appears as kernel26, so how do I find a particular version?
I have the old 2.6.38 modules in /lib/modules
[root@orac pkg]# ls /lib/modules/
2.6.38-ARCH 2.6.39-ARCH fglrx fglrxold
but do not have 2.6.38-ARCH in /var/cache/pacman/pkg
Thanks in advance
Last edited by hal8000 (2011-06-17 17:27:12)

I use Catalyst 11.4 with kernel 2.6.39, but instead of catalyst I use catalyst-hook to build the fglrx module after kernel updates and it works perfectly.
$ uname -sr
Linux 2.6.39-ARCH
$ pacman -Qs catalyst
local/catalyst-hook 11.4-1 [3.15 MB]
AMD/ATI drivers. Auto re-compile the fglrx module when kernel update
(mkinitcpio's hook)
local/catalyst-utils 11.4-1 [70.30 MB]
AMD/ATI Catalyst drivers utilities and libraries.
Last edited by Dastingo (2011-06-17 18:30:00)

[Solved] List AUR packages installed and only AUR packages.

Here's a good one. Thought this would be easy but thought it over and then looked around a bit and haven't found anything. There's might just be an easy way to do this that will make me *bonk* my head in the morning but I haven't found it yet. I'm looking to be able to just list the packages I have installed from AUR and not any that I have gotten from the official repos. I've checked out some utilities in AUR (like AURcheck) but as far as I can tell they just look for AUR updates. Anyone know of a way to do this?
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-10-30 14:32:22)

I just got to reinstalling and this was a lifesaver - it worked great. Thank for the help, brisbin, ghost, Allan...
@Ghost, I would have used packup but I had a couple downgraded packages and I wanted to be able to troubleshoot it.
The tip about the grep -v doing 'shortnameplus' was a good tip, Profjim. I hadn't read this last post before and during the reinstall I was a bit surprised nvidia wasn't installed so... all is good now.
I created a script to be able to create the backup list and restores from it simliar to ghosts and am able to run it in cron job. Probably not a big deal, but... phhht. Here it is for anyone that can use it:
#!/bin/bash
# pacbac - Create and restore from list all installed packages
# Package list locations (official and local)
pkglsoff=/opt/backup/pc-emach/arch-pkglist-official
pkglsloc=/opt/backup/pc-emach/arch-pkglist-local
# Exclude packages
excldoff=()
excldloc=()
# Use filename as program name
prog=${0##*/}
# Text color variables
bldblu='\e[1;34m' # blue
bldred='\e[1;31m' # red
bldwht='\e[1;37m' # white
txtcyn='\e[0;36m' # cyan
txtund=$(tput sgr 0 1) # underline
txtrst='\e[0m' # text reset
info=${bldwht}*${txtrst}
pass=${bldblu}*${txtrst}
warn=${bldred}!${txtrst}
# If restoring, be sure yaourt is installed
if [[ "$1" == 'r' ]] && [[ -z $(pacman -Qs yaourt) ]]; then
echo ""
echo -e "$warn $prog requires ${txtund}}Yaourt${txtrst} to be installed."
echo -e " ${txtcyn}http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt${txtrst}"
echo ""
exit
fi
case $1 in
b ) # Create list of official repository packages (core, extra, community)
echo -e "$info Creating list of official (core/extra/community packages) packages installed."
# Create list, remove local, base
pacman -Qqe | grep -vx "$(pacman -Qqg base)" | grep -vx "$(pacman -Qqm)" > "$pkglsoff"
# Create list of local packages (includes the AUR)
echo -e "$info Creating list of local (includes AUR) packages installed."
pacman -Qqm > "$pkglsloc"
echo -e "$pass Official package list saved to ${txtund}"$pkglsoff"${txtrst}"
echo -e "$pass Local package list saved to ${txtund}"$pkglsloc"${txtrst}" ;;
r ) # Update repository database, then restore packages from list
echo -e "$info Installing packages from lists"
sudo pacman -Sy
# use -f to overwrite conflicting files
sudo pacman -S --needed $(cat "$pkglsoff")
# Yaourt doesn't have --needed check
yaourt -S $(cat "$pkglsloc" | grep -vx "$(pacman -Qqm)") ;;
* ) echo -e " pacbac b - build installed packages list. (dir:${txtund}"${pkglsoff%/*}"${txtrst})"
echo -e " pacbac r - restore installed packages from package list." ;;
esac
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-10-31 14:16:55)

Bug? flashplugin crashes, downgrading libvdpau solves it

Since this morning Flash has been crashing both in Firefox and Chromium in my 64bits installation.
Making the suggested changes to /etc/adobe/mms.cfg makes no difference.
After downgrading libvdpau (0.6-2 => 0.6-1) flashplugin works normally again.
Did I find a bug or am I doing something wrong?
EDIT: Oh! https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145408
Last edited by Tanizaki (2013-07-02 14:52:18)

Kebertx wrote:Doesn't the "2" in "0.6-2" represent just the pkgrel? I'm looking at the PKGBUILD for libvdpau, and it seems that 0.6-2 is really using the same source as 0.6-1. I just downgraded that way since I didn't have the old package anymore, and it hasn't helped at all. Can someone point me to a source for the working libvdpau downgrade package?
Find 0.6-1 in the ARM http://arm.konnichi.com/
The difference is 0.6-2 is compiled with DRI2-support while 0.6-1 is not. This apparently exposed a bug in the nouveau driver.
Last edited by progandy (2013-07-10 11:25:58)

[SOLVED] Downgrading the Kernel

I just did a system upgrade which gave me the 2.6.32-ARCH Kernel. Problem is, the RT2860 wifi driver doesn't seem to play nicely with this kernel. I now have no network connection.
From what I can see, there doesn't seem to be a patch available for this? Which is why I want to revert back to my old kernel. I had a looksy at the ArchWiki page on downgrading packages but my problem lies with ...what packages do I need to downgrade?
Do I just 'pacman -rsn Kernel26 Kernel26-firmware Kernel26-headers' then install those three packages from my packman cache? How do I go about fixing modules and whatnot... OSS (sound system) complained about requiring the kernel header package. Do I also need to downgrade this?
Last edited by tehkane (2010-01-03 04:09:45)

There is a thread on this issue http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86447
The driver works fine: 2.6.32 renamed the interface from ra0 to wlan0 - if you make the change in your network manager you won't need to downgrade the kernel.

Downgrading package postgis (2.0.3-1 = 2.0.2-1)

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