Solved - Kodi fails to start after system update today

Hello all,

Today I tried to start Kodi but it failed to start and gave me the following error message:

/usr/lib/kodi/kodi.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libiso9660.so.11: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

libiso9660.so.11 is indeed no more and only libiso9660.so.12 is present.

Yesterday it was working fine so I checked pacman.log to see what was updated today since I ran a system update this morning.

The update that caught my attention was libcdio:
[2025-01-12T10:20:15+0100] [ALPM] upgraded libcdio (2.1.0-4.3 → 2.2.0-1.1

pacman -Qii libcdio says:
/usr/lib/libiso9660.so.12 is owned by libcdio 2.2.0-1.1

When I look at the installed kodi versions I see a difference between the one in the arch repo and the one in the cachyOS repo:

2 cachyos-v3/kodi 21.1-6 (33.6 MiB 85.6 MiB) (Installed)
A software media player and entertainment hub for digital media (gl renderer)
1 extra/kodi 21.1-9 (33.2 MiB 85.0 MiB) (Installed: 21.1-6)
A software media player and entertainment hub for digital media (gl renderer)

Is it possible that this is the cause of the error and if yes when will the kodi version in the cachy repo be updated.

In utter desperation I tried symlinking /usr/lib/libiso9660.so.11 to /usr/lib/libiso9660.so.12.0.0 but that led to other errors…

Will rebuild, thank you for the notice.

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All is well after your rebuild and my update this morning…thanks…

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Hello,
I am having the same problem.

I am using repository cachyos-extra-v4 and I see that kodi is not included in it and pacman syncs it from the Arch upstream extra repository.

Thanks for any help

Solved after running

cachyos-rate-mirrors

and synchronize