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Hi,
Artix/Plasma/runit, I'm trying to use colord (https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/colord/) with colord-runit and colord-kde (https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/colord-kde/) (I also installed the ICC profile for my monitor through Plasma).

Colord does not start at boot, with the error:

CdMain: failed to load mapping database: Can't open database: unable to open database file

Tried to run it manually with sudo chpst -u colord /usr/lib/colord --verbose, I got:

Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
CdMappingDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/mapping.db'
CdMain: failed to load mapping database: Can't open database: unable to open database file

Then I checked, and the directory /var/lib/colord does not exist, searched for a mapping.db file on the whole filesystem and it does not exist, so... How am I supposed to create it?

I can't use colormgr because, as colord isn't running, it fails with the error

No connection to colord: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.ColorManager: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

opened pamac and searched for colord.  colord does not provide a file on install to that location or such a named file db.  Same is true for colord-runit and colord-kde.



You didn't install one of these from the aur?  Nothing in the repos for artix should even be installed to such a directory or such a db file.

have you installed arch repos maybe and put them in pacman.conf out of order?

Ok, so how should I generate this file/otherwise solve the error?

None of these packages is from the AUR



No (?)

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you could open a terminal and create the path and the file as root user but i wouldn't expect much from that.  Crazy as it sounds it might just work.

If you use pamac you could look and see what repo you installed colord and the others from.  My first thought is you installed something from a repo other than artix.

Tried, didn't work:

Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
CdMappingDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/mapping.db'
CdMappingDb: creating table to repair: no such table: mappings
CdMappingDb: altering table to repair: no such table: mappings
CdMappingDb: altering table to convert: no such table: mappings_v2
CdMain: failed to load mapping database: Failed to migrate mappings: SQL error: no such table: mappings

I configured the repositories as in the wiki (https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Repositories), so that Artix ones take precedence , and apparently Colord is not in Artix repos. I checked with Octopi, and colord has been installed from Arch's extra repository

EDIT: colord is in Artix repos and I reinstalled it from world, but the problem is the same

search the web for the error

CdMappingDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/mapping.db'

and see what you find?


Also, diod you reboot after installing colord?

Nothing useful, as most question do not have a reply, or are related to an existing but corrupted mapping.db, while here I don't have such a file nor I do find instructions on how to create it

did you try rebooting after installing colord?

https://github.com/clearlinux/distribution/issues/1374

Perhaps the error is with artix after all?  Maybe the app wasn't built properly since the files it generates don't include the db file?  But according to the post above it seems colord is making the file when it runs as someone had a corrupted file and deleted it in order to fix the corrupted file.

Yes, same results as above

I'll open an issue

Additional detail: now I remembered that I had to create the folder manually, as at first it gave Error creating directory /var/lib/colord: Permission denied, so I tried to chmod 777 the folder and now colord works.

Obviously it is NOT a solution, but a workaround, I'll have to understand what's happening

i was just about to assert this is a permissions issue

hp-i7:[catherdersoflinux]:~/Desktop$ /usr/lib/colord --verbose
14:14:45	Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
14:14:45	CdMain: failed to load mapping database: Error creating directory /var/lib/colord: Permission denied
hp-i7:[catherdersoflinux]:~/Desktop$ mkdir /var/lib/colord
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/lib/colord’: Permission denied
hp-i7:[catherdersoflinux]:~/Desktop$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/colord
[sudo] password for catherdersoflinux: 
hp-i7:[catherdersoflinux]:~/Desktop$ /usr/lib/colord --verbose
14:15:30	Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
14:15:30	CdMappingDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/mapping.db'
14:15:30	CdMain: failed to load mapping database: Can't open database: unable to open database file

you beat me to the punch

hp-i7:[catherdersoflinux]:~/Desktop$ sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/colord
hp-i7:[catherdersoflinux]:~/Desktop$ /usr/lib/colord --verbose
14:18:07	Verbose debugging enabled (on console 1)
14:18:07	CdMappingDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/mapping.db'
14:18:07	CdMappingDb: creating table to repair: no such table: mappings
14:18:07	CdMappingDb: altering table to convert: no such table: mappings_v2
14:18:07	CdDeviceDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/storage.db'
14:18:07	CdDeviceDb: creating table to repair: no such table: devices
14:18:07	CdProfileDb: trying to open database '/var/lib/colord/storage.db'
14:18:07	display card0-DP-2 has ID 'xrandr-UW40T2BW-7041Y22902679' from MD5 4fc175d95554ba7e4ae4707e1f8c28fe
14:18:07	searching for plugins in /usr/lib/colord-plugins
14:18:07	run cd_plugin_initialize on /usr/lib/colord-plugins/libcolord_sensor_scanner.so
14:18:07	finished cd_plugin_initialize
14:18:07	run cd_plugin_initialize on /usr/lib/colord-plugins/libcolord_sensor_camera.so
14:18:07	finished cd_plugin_initialize
14:18:07	System vendor: 'Hewlett Packard', System model: 'HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF'
14:18:07	CdMain: lost name: org.freedesktop.ColorManager
14:18:07	run cd_plugin_destroy on /usr/lib/colord-plugins/libcolord_sensor_scanner.so
14:18:07	finished cd_plugin_destroy
14:18:07	run cd_plugin_destroy on /usr/lib/colord-plugins/libcolord_sensor_camera.so
14:18:07	finished cd_plugin_destroy

verified your error and solution fwiw

Is this a packaging issue, that has to be managed on Artix side, or is it a software issue that should be managed on colord side?

Artix Devs will create the fix.  Clearly colord needs to write to a directory it doesn't have permissions for.  They can do that and rebuild the package.  Meanwhile everyone has your workaround thanks to your efforts.

Thank you, is there a procedure to notify the devs?

By the way, I want to highlight that probably this is not the best solution, 777 permission should be used with caution...

https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,814.msg19119.html#msg19119

Thank you!

So:

• A bug tracker (https://bugs.artixlinux.org/) has been proposed, and the link is in /usr/lib/os-release, but it never went operational and returns HTTP 403
• There is a Gitea instance (https://gitea.artixlinux.org/artixlinux) but registration is disabled
• Mailing lists and IRC do not have a section dedicated to issues/bug reporting
• The forum does not have a issue/bug reporting section, choose the appropriate section using common sense

I'll open a new topic with only the relevant information

https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,4079.0.html

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