Manjaro/Arch - Octopi will not fire.
Posted: 03 Feb 2016, 17:21
Manjaro and Arch have this GUI frontend for pacman that suddenly stopped fireing
Well yeah great information there what exactly am I to install?
Reinstalling Octopi did not pull the needed xcb stuff either.
Then I remembered that I had removed my orphans
So that would give me a clue.
Normally I think logs are for sissies but now I really needed to check what xcb stuff that was removed so I did a
After some "ls-ing" I found two xcb related entries there that were no longer installed:
xcb-util-cursor and xcb-util-renderutil
Well since that was in the cache and the only stuff named xcb something - the rest was easy:
And oh wonder: Octopi fired just fine.
So the lesson is: Removing orphans is true Berserk stuff that needs you to be awake ... and checking the cache (chicken stuff) to fix the fubar is the medicine
This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
Well yeah great information there what exactly am I to install?
Reinstalling Octopi did not pull the needed xcb stuff either.
Then I remembered that I had removed my orphans
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pacman -Rs $(pacman -Qqdt)
So that would give me a clue.
Normally I think logs are for sissies but now I really needed to check what xcb stuff that was removed so I did a
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cd /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
After some "ls-ing" I found two xcb related entries there that were no longer installed:
xcb-util-cursor and xcb-util-renderutil
Well since that was in the cache and the only stuff named xcb something - the rest was easy:
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sudo pacman -S xcb-util-cursor xcb-util-renderutil
And oh wonder: Octopi fired just fine.
So the lesson is: Removing orphans is true Berserk stuff that needs you to be awake ... and checking the cache (chicken stuff) to fix the fubar is the medicine