[Solved] Grub Error 13, ext4 and 2.6.28.1

Hi guys!!!
I have formatted my laptop disk in new ext4 format, following wiki instructions:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cre … _Partition
and all wok fine.
But after today update (pacman -Syu), my arch don't boot.
Grub messages (lastest grub version, normal grub no grub2):
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/.............
Error 13: invalid or unsupported executable format
No Normal image nor Fallback image boot.
Any suggestion?
P.D. Sorry for my englis xD
Check wiki solution:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cre … B_Error_13
Last edited by superchango (2009-01-23 02:19:19)

from grub's web site:
13 : Invalid or unsupported executable format
This error is returned if the kernel image being loaded is not recognized as Multiboot or one of the supported native formats (Linux zImage or bzImage, FreeBSD, or NetBSD).
I think your vmlinuz26 file is wrong in some ways, or grub can't read ext4 correctly (I have done a fresh install with ext4, but I have made a separate partition for /boot in ext2)
superchango wrote:following wiki instructions:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cre … _Partition
did you create from scratch or did you convert from ext3 ?

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Last edited by bloodniece (2009-10-04 15:11:12)

bloodniece wrote:
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[SOLVED] Grub Error "Read or write outside of disk hd0"

Trying to install Arch Linux (as per client request) on an old Seagate Mirra Personal Server. I reflashed the bios to get rid of the Seagate modified ROM and put the standard, stock, VIA bios image on there. Everything boots fine, it boots windows fine. But when I install Arch Linux on the drive and try to boot, it errors out with
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Good morning to all of You.
Sorry for posting in a [SOLVED] thread but I find the info that I am about to add relevant and I am betting my vital organs that someone else might find it interesting too.
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[SOLVED] GRUB: Error 15: File not found

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Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) grub/stage2 p /grub/menu.lst "... succeeded
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Last edited by zulustar (2009-09-13 20:20:57)

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ibendiben wrote:
fumbles wrote:
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/edit
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The default was a typo, as I could not boot into anything except the Arch CD I had to type it in manually. Although thanks for the reply anyways.
kgas wrote:
Hello fumbles, As you have a separate /boot partition, the grub entry is not correct, I believe. if should be /boot/vmlinuz For more help this link may also help you.
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This is simply not true. The reverse however is. I did NOT have a seperate boot parition, ie boot was just in the root partition then yes I would have to add /boot to the kernel and initrd lines.
Last edited by fumbles (2009-01-08 04:32:07)

[SOLVED] - Grub Error 15 on Fresh Install

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In Grub I've tried:
root (HD
and HD0, HD1 are the Options. HD1 is my USB Flash Drive (sdb)
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I'd think that stage1 would be found if Grub was installed properly.
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Last edited by lkraemer (2012-02-21 15:17:21)

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[Solved] Grub error when booting...

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Last edited by Neko-san (2007-03-12 19:16:41)

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[Solved] Grub errors 18 and 22 when booting from SSD

Hello community,
recently I purchased an SSD drive and am now having trouble doing an Arch install on it. Before that a 2TB HDD was in use. After building in the SSD I partitioned it (msdos partition table) creating partitions for swap, / and /home. Then I copied the files from the old /home partition on the freshly created one and installed Arch on the new / partition. Here's the partition setup:
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Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB, 2000398934016 bytes
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
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/dev/sdb2 241582080 250068991 4243456 82 Linux swap / Solaris
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Last edited by PhotonX (2012-07-26 06:04:53)

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[SOLVED]Grub error: no such device....

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Sep 11 12:39 ef0cbf1f-d46d-40ca-973f-bda3f1b4fa95 -> ../../sda1
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fi
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menuentry 'Arch GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-true-ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467' {
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set gfxpayload=keep
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insmod ext2
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### END /etc/grub.d/20_linux_xen ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
if [ -f ${config_directory}/custom.cfg ]; then
source ${config_directory}/custom.cfg
elif [ -z "${config_directory}" -a -f $prefix/custom.cfg ]; then
source $prefix/custom.cfg;
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/41_custom ###
How to solve it? What is wrong?
Last edited by rado3105 (2012-09-11 16:32:25)

Ok sorry.
The problem was that I didnt know that syslinux is alternative to grub. So I installed syslinux and also grub. Thanks

[SOLVED] Grub error 18 - cannot boot to Windows

Earlier today I tried to install Arch 64bit (I had 32bit earlier) with kdemod to test new KDE4.2. However, after installation I could not boot neither Arch nor Windows. Grub appeared, but every single option gave me an error. I can't remember anymore which error it was, but It doesn't matter anymore. I thought I had made a really stupid and basic mistake while installing, I just didn't know what.
I wanted to test KDE4.2 so much so I installed Kubuntu (yeah, this topic is not related to Arch Linux, I hope that somebody can help me though, move this topic to somewhere else if it doesn't belong here ). Installation was fine, booting to Kubuntu was fine (and upgrading to KDE4.2 was fine), but booting to Windows was not. It gave me a following error:
Error 18: Selected cylinder exceeds maximum supported by BIOS
I googled a bit and found this: http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/GRUB#Error_18 I reinstalled Kubuntu using /dev/sdb1 as /boot and /dev/sdb2 as / (/dev/sdb3 is windows and /dev/sdb4 is my game partition, ntfs). Before this I had /dev/sdb1 as / and /dev/sdb2 as swap (now I have no swap at all, my 4GB RAM should be enough). The only difference was that at first grub gave me error 15 (I fixed it with Kubuntu LiveCD). After that - no difference.
I need Windows for playing. That's why it's very important that I can use it. [SOLVED] In addition, I should say that /dev/sda is a separated hard drive which is encrypted with Truecrypt. (I said this because I think that Kubuntu tried to install grub on (hd0)...) When I tried to mount this hard drive with Kubuntu, it couldn't do it. I wanted to test mounting on Windows to check if it is just Kubuntu's problem. If not, I'm fucked because this hard drive contains VERY VERY VERY IMPORTANT files. [/SOLVED]
I really need help, please. If somebody can help me, (s)he is my hero.
Last edited by Exitium (2009-01-29 14:42:32)

Oops, I forgot:
menu.lst:
(Yup, a lot of comments, Ubuntu style)
# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.
## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0
## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 10
## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
#hiddenmenu
# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue
## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
# password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret
# examples
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
# title Linux
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below
## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=e85e83e5-0f7c-419e-8cad-1fe5d9128e8f ro
## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=504fab5b-7bb6-4b20-af58-83677386de37
## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
## alternative=false
# alternative=true
## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
## lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false
## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash
## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
## lockold=true
# lockold=false
## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=
## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0
## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
## altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all
## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
## memtest86=false
# memtest86=true
## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false
## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic
uuid 504fab5b-7bb6-4b20-af58-83677386de37
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=e85e83e5-0f7c-419e-8cad-1fe5d9128e8f ro quiet splash
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 8.10, kernel 2.6.27-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 504fab5b-7bb6-4b20-af58-83677386de37
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic root=UUID=e85e83e5-0f7c-419e-8cad-1fe5d9128e8f ro single
initrd /initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
title Ubuntu 8.10, memtest86+
uuid 504fab5b-7bb6-4b20-af58-83677386de37
kernel /memtest86+.bin
quiet
title Wintoosa
root (hd1,2)
savedefault
makeactive
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader +1
fdisk -l
(Note: These results are mainly in Finnish. It could be hard to you to read it... But whatever... I'll translate these only if necessary)
Levy /dev/sda: 640.1 Gt, 640135028736 tavua
255 päätä, 63 sektoria/ura, 77825 sylinteriä
Yksiköt = 16065 * 512 = 8225280 -tavuiset sylinterit
Levyn tunniste: 0xcc5d88e2
Laite Käynn Alku Loppu Lohkot Id Järjestelmä
/dev/sda1 * 244091 485122 1936074870+ b8 BSDI sivutus
Osion 1 loppu ei ole sylinterin rajalla.
/dev/sda2 176430 394864 1754572509+ 43 Tuntematon
Osion 2 loppu ei ole sylinterin rajalla.
/dev/sda3 177329 413105 1893868925 29 Tuntematon
Osion 3 loppu ei ole sylinterin rajalla.
/dev/sda4 57435 309703 2026342066 5c Priam Edisk
Osion 4 loppu ei ole sylinterin rajalla.
Osiotaulumerkinnät eivät ole levyjärjestyksessä
Levy /dev/sdb: 500.1 Gt, 500107862016 tavua
255 päätä, 63 sektoria/ura, 60801 sylinteriä
Yksiköt = 16065 * 512 = 8225280 -tavuiset sylinterit
Levyn tunniste: 0x0007a52a
Laite Käynn Alku Loppu Lohkot Id Järjestelmä
/dev/sdb1 1 128 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 129 13185 104880352+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 13186 26239 104856255 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb4 26240 60801 277619265 7 HPFS/NTFS
Last edited by Exitium (2009-01-28 21:05:33)

[SOLVED] grub error on installation

Hello
Ive just attempted to install arch for the first time, however grub fails when attempting to install
/boot is on sda5 and root on sda6. both are logical partitions, the rest are primary. root is ext4, boot is ext2.
tty7 gives:
grub> device (hd0) /dev/sda
grub> root (hd0,4)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x1
i ran a find /boot/grub/stage1 with the grub utility under a separate tty, but grub doesnt find it
i did find it manually under /mnt however. i also ran "root (hd0," in grub and it gives the same error for every partition
the automatically generated menu.lst looked like this:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda6 ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img
# (1) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
#makeactive
chainloader +1
I only uncommented the lines for windows dual boot. The rest looked correct so I left it.
From what Ive read on these forums and from googling, it seems as though the grub utility cannot read the partitions correctly. i used windows 7 diskpart to partition. Is this the reason that the install fails and should I be using something else to partition?
Last edited by neilzium (2011-12-17 15:34:54)

Hmm... you may have some issues with installing GRUB to a logical partition but then again the last time I tried to do something like this was a few years ago and I don't remember so well. Do you want the GRUB installation that you're working on now to be the main bootloader for your computer? If so then you could try installing GRUB to the MBR. It's not a fix, I know, but it would be an adequate workaround. Do you have a second linux distribution installed on /dev/sda3 and /dev/sda4? Then you could try using the bootloader on /dev/sda3 to boot arch on /dev/sda6.
As far as actually thinking about the problem and the error that you have and not just stalling for an answer by giving you random workarounds partition type 0x1 is FAT12 and doesn't look too much like a linux boot partition, which should be more like 0x83.
This thread is kinda interesting, not sure if it's the exact same problem but anyways, here
This is where I found the info for whether logical boot partitions work or not

[Solved] Grub Error 15 at boot on new install.

So I was trying to avoid asking for help, but I honestly can't see what's wrong with my new install of arch. I followed the beginner's guide all the way up to the part where you reboot and remove the liveCD. It all went swimmingly until I rebooted and got:
GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB Loading, please wait...
Error 15
I don't know what's going on. Error 15 is supposedly "file not found," but I don't know what file it's looking for since I have a grub.cfg that I created from the steps posted on the guide. Any help is greatly appreciated.
--Wes
EDIT:
Just to be clear I followed the BIOS motherboard steps for GRUB.
Last edited by Wesman26 (2012-11-09 01:25:38)

Xacky wrote:Which instructions did you follow? This would normaly do it when chrooted (during install).
Wat your disk en partition lay-out?
-One or more harddisks?
-Partitions? Everything on / or separate /home /boot (/var)?
I'm following the beginner's guide instructions for a BIOS install. After chroot I used the following:
# pacman -S grub-bios
# grub-install --target=i386-pc --recheck --force --debug /dev/sdb
# cp /usr/share/locale/en\@quot/LC_MESSAGES/grub.mo /boot/grub/locale/en.mo
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Aside from the warnings (that I think most people ignored) of a few files not existing during the installation of grub-bios, it all went fine. The harddrive is definitely sdb (fdisk -l shows sda as my windows drive, not to mention I just formatted and partitioned sdb). My partitions are laid out exactly as the guide tells me to (/ on /dev/sdb1 and /home on /dev/sdb2). They are the only partitions on sdb.
DSpider wrote:Lol... a full reinstall wasn't needed. This mentality is typical to a Windows user.
I don't appreciate your condescension. These forums have (up to this point) always been really helpful and friendly to me; just because I'm posting in the newbie corner doesn't mean I'm not familiar with linux, and even if I were unfamiliar with linux I would hope that you could show more respect and compassion for someone who needs help than to ostracize them and laugh about their problem. I posted here because I figured I didn't need to waste the time of the mods and users who offer help in the installation subforum with something that I assumed would be a trivial fix. I expected courteous, thoughtful responses. I was apparently wrong to assume.
I reinstalled because I didn't know what else to do, and figured that there might have been a chance that I made a mistake. Since your previous advice was literally getting me nowhere I figured the 10 minutes of my time reinstalling took up would be worth the potential of fixing my problem.
To answer your questions that are actually helpful:
I don't have grub installed on another drive and my drive and partition layout is detailed above. As for boot priority, it hasn't changed since I first installed linux in 2006 and it's worked ever since; I'm performing this operation to clear what was once a drive cluttered with a few other distros that I've abandoned since 2007 when I found Arch (yes I am actually that lazy).
Is it possible that my old installation of grub might have stayed on the drive even after I rid it of the old partitions (since it's stored in MBR)? If so does the installation of grub2 I'm performing not get rid of it?
Hope this helps,
--Wes
Last edited by Wesman26 (2012-11-08 20:53:27)

[SOLVED] Journal error on EXT4 root device

I'm getting an error in my dmesg once every boot concerning the journal on my root device:
dmesg wrote:[ 304.383885] EXT4-fs (sda3): error count: 2
[ 304.383897] EXT4-fs (sda3): initial error at 1402036456: ext4_journal_check_start:56
[ 304.383904] EXT4-fs (sda3): last error at 1402036459: ext4_journal_check_start:56
It doesn't show up immediately upon booting, but shortly after. I assume some kind of journal flush or similar is happening there. I have tried booting from a live USB stick and running fsck, but it comes up clean.
The device is a Samsung 840 SSD, connected via SATA, with the defaults,noatime,discard mount options. SMART shows no errors, apart from ~800 CRC checksum errors, but that value hasn't changed in over 6 months since I changed the SATA cable, which I assume was defective.
Is the journal on my root device corrupt?
E: I tried fsck'ing again, after studying the man page. Re-running fsck and forcing it to check everything even if the filesystem seemed clean, caused a bunch of inode errors to pop up. Studying the files in lost+found afterwards revealed a bunch of source code files that looked like Perl. It must have been a package upgrade that got corrupted during the file transfer from /var to / (they're on separate devices).
Last edited by KozmoNaut (2014-06-16 22:14:58)

jjacky wrote:See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=189537
Thank you. It works. I edited my original post and added the solution.
I'm curious whether there are any advantages when partitioning a LUKS device vs using LVM, if LVM features won't be used (partitions will have a fixed size). There does not seem to be any, so adding an extra layer of abstraction like LVM seemed unnecessary.
Last edited by SteveSapolsky (2014-12-05 13:41:01)

[SOLVED] [GRUB error] "no such device" "vmlinuz-linux not found"

SOLUTION AT POST #11
I just completed the install process onto a new machine. Grub starts but then returns these error messages.
Booting 'Arch GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel'
error: no such device: ad4103fa-d940-47ca-8506-301d8071d467.
Loading Linux core repo kernel ...
error: file '/boot/vmlinuz-linux' not found.
Loading initial ramdisk ...
error: you need to load the kernel first.
Press any key to continue...
I installed Arch via a flashdrive (sdb), onto SATA port 1 (sda). SDA has a fresh MBR. Unfortunately, I have no way to post my grub config files. What files must I modify to get GRUB to work properly?
fstab: http://sprunge.us/SVMi
grub.cfg: http://sprunge.us/hQCB
Edit: Thread solved.
Last edited by qKUqm3wtY4 (2013-01-31 03:36:43)

SOLUTION
by: jynnantonix
Step 1: Start Arch via boot disc.
Step 2: Connect to internet.
Step 3: Mount partitions.
# swapon dev/sdX
# mount /dev/sdX /mnt
# mount /dev/sdX /mnt/home
# mount /dev/sdX /mnt/boot
Step 4: Chroot
# arch-chroot /mnt
Step 5: Remake grub.conf
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Another Notable Tip by: jynnantonix
If you need to post information from terminal to the internet, use the following:
[insert command here] | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us
example: ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/ | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us
example: cat /boot/grub/grub.cfg | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us
Last edited by qKUqm3wtY4 (2013-01-31 04:04:49)

[SOLVED] XPCOMGlueLoad Error with Firefox and Thunderbird

When I update xcb-util from 0.3.6-2 to 0.3.8-1 I get the following error when starting firefox or (in this case) thunderbird:
XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom.so:
libxcb-aux.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Couldn't load XPCOM.
There is no libxcb-aux-so.0 in my system but if I downgrade back to 0.3.6-2 then it installs in /usr/lib/libxcb-aux.so.0. If I copy this file and then update and paste it back in then thunderbird and firefox start fine with no errors but that doesn't feel like the proper way of doing things and it might lead to conflicts.
I wouldn't mind that much but I can't upgrade things like xf86-video-intel without the newer version of xcb-util.
Any help would be appreciated.
Last edited by JJ.Eastwood (2012-01-02 18:05:08)

do not skip xcb-util or any other package. just fully update everything and no, is not about libxcb is all about xcb-util
thunderbird links to startup-notification, which links to new xcb-util.
if you use a xf86-video-intel from aur, you must recompile after fully updating your system
Last edited by wonder (2012-01-02 18:05:28)

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