On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:28:03 +0800 Shaochun Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > After updating to expat-2.0.1, apache2 couldn't be started. > It says that /usr/sbin/apache2 can't find shared library libexpat.so.0. > I did some searching on the internet and found that I need do the > following: > revdep-rebuild -X --library=libexpat.so.0 > > Unfortunately, doing this doesn't get apache2 running again and the same > problem still exits. > > Observing the output of the above command, I notice > /usr/lib64/libaprutil-0.so.0.9.12 is broken. This file belongs to > apr-util. By executing 'eix apr-util', I find that there are two > versions of apr-util installed in my computer. > > After re-emergeing the apr-util-0.9.12-r1, apache2 started normally. > > So I think that the problem is accually caused by the "-X" option of > revdep-rebuild command, which emerges the best (currrently is the latest > stable) packages available. In this apr-util case, it will emerge > apr-util-1.2.8. > > So for slotted packages, don't use "-X" option for revdep-rebuild > command. Hoping in the future, revdep-rebuild could handles such > situation correctly. > > I wish my experience be useful to you. > Thank you, thank you, thank you! That was a nasty one, glad you sleuthed it out. Cheers, -- Michael Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
