Re: Edge case issues

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 06:23:07AM -0800, Michel Lind wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 7, 2025, at 2:40 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2025 at 04:15:33PM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> >
> >
> > Spoiler alert--alacritty is solved.  User error.
> >
> >
> >> I installed F42 from the nightly builds last night. I almost always choose
> >> a minimal install and build from there.
> >> 
> >> I ran into two issues, both of which I guess are edge cases, since I
> >> suspect most people use one of the included desktops. But I tend to install
> >> openbox.
> >> 
> >> The first issue is that I found there is no longer a tint2 rpm. Tint2 is a
> >> panel that goes well with openbox. I guess I've been upgrading various
> >> installs which is why I didn't notice that there hasn't been a tint2 rpm in
> >> a while. (The last I found was from F39, on rpmfind). It installed on the
> >> F42 with no problems.
> >> 
> >> The second issue is the alacritty terminal. I installed from rpm which
> >> seemed fine, but when I tried to open it, I got a message of
> >> 
> >> 
> >> thread 'main' panicked at /usr/share/cargo/registry/xkbcommon-dl-0.4.2/src/x11.rs:59:28:
> >> Library libxkbcommon-x11.so could not be loaded.
> >> note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
> >
> > It turns out that I hadn't installed xkbcommon. I was *sure* that I had,
> > but hadn't, once it was installed, alacritty was fine. Sorry to waste
> > people's time.
> >
> >
> That still sounds like a packaging bug - any dependency should be explicitly listed rather than implicitly depended on
> 
> I suspect xkbcommon is dlopen()ed which is why the RPM build process doesn't automatically flag it as a dependency
> 
> Cheers,

I mentioned the issue on Fedora forums, where someone with more knowledge
than myself pointed out that rpm -Qr alacritty showed no dependency of
libxkbcommon-x11, though strings /usr/bin/alacritty did include a message
of "strings /usr/bin/alacritty" included "library libxkbcommon-x11.so could not be loaded"

-- 
Scott Robbins
PGP keyID EB3467D6
( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6

-- 
_______________________________________________
test mailing list -- [email protected]
To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/
List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]
Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue