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Jim Hatfield wrote: | I've had an ever-growing backlog of packages to update, all blocked | by xfce: | | |>term2 root # emerge --update world |>Calculating world dependencies ...done! |> |>!!! Error: the xfce-base/xfce4-base package conflicts with another package. |>!!! both can't be installed on the same system together. |>!!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. | | | Just now, out of (perverse) curiosity, I tried an emerge --depclean | and it did seem to remove some of the xfce extras which I understand | are causing this problem. I noticed right at the end there was an | error message about libacl.so.1, so decided to reboot to make sure | everything was OK. | | But sadly no. Selected highlights from the boot messages (by hand): | | *Calculating module dependencies | *Failed to calculate dependencies | | and | | *Caching service dependencies | ls: error while loading shared libraries: libacl.so.1: cannot open | shared object file: no such file or directory | * No scripts to process! | /var/lib/init.d/depcache: /var/lib/init.d/depcache: no such file or | directory | | (then lots and lots of complaints about libacl.so.1) | then after the login prompt: | | error calling: unlink in "GLOBAL" | error calling: unlink in "GLOBAL" | | and no xdm so no graphical login. | | I can log in as root but I can't even do an "ls". | Is there any way I can get libacl.so.1 back so I can proceed?
Try to run "revdep-rebuild" to remerge the missing dependencies. It should bring your system back to normal. Also consider using the dep-script (see below for URL) made by ecatmur instead of the broken emerge --depclean.
URL: http://home.jesus.ox.ac.uk/~ecatmur/my-bin/dep
Regards,
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