On Sunday 04 July 2010 17:24:52 Dale wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: > > 100630 Willie Wong wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> unmerge libpng > >>> delete everything left with libpng in it's name > >>> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted > >>> same with revdep-rebuild > >>> re-emerge libpng and let portage pick the version to merge > >>> emerge -avuND world > >>> revdep-rebuild > >>> repeat till no problems reported > >>> lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix just for good measure. > >> > >> Am I just extremely lucky or something? > >> libpng was installed, slotted on Tuesday May 11 nothing broke. > >> Didn't run lafilefixer, but did run revdep-rebuild a few times > >> and two deep world updates since then. > >> Should I let my breath out now, or should I not be surprised > >> if this "problem" hits a few weeks down the road? > > > > My experience spread over 2 days was fairly straightforward. > > (1) Emerged Libpng 1.4.3 ; (2) 'revdep-rebuild' showed 42 rebuilds, > > some of which wouldn't compile ; (3) 'lafilefixer --justfixit' helped ; > > (4) 'r-r' showed a much shorter list ; (5) KDE (3 or 4) wouldn't start, > > so re-merge Qt3 Kdelibs3& Ksokoban Kmahjongg3 Kworldclock ; > > (6) re-merged Qt4 (9 pkgs) Kdelibs4 Speedcrunch ; (7) along the way, > > a few other pkgs needed re-merging, eg Openmotif for Xpdf ; > > (8) Xulrunner& Openoffice were listed by 'r-r', but seem ok asis ; > > (9) I deleted the Libpng '12' lib, which is now obsolete. > > > > HTH anyone else updating: just allow a few hours for re-merging. > > I'm not alone then. My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm > wouldn't start. Sort of have to have one to get to the other. I didn't > like the idea of not having my GUI either. :-( > > I didn't run lafilefixer on mine but all my packages compiled on the > first try. I had 45 or so to compile on here. Weird. I was expecting > at least one to fail.
Run lafilefixer --justfixit and then revdep-rebuild -v -i. You may have to rinse and repeat more than once. I was getting symptoms like yours only to discover that I had many more packages that needed remerging. YMMV -- Regards, Mick
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