On 29/07/2017 17:25, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 29 Jul 2017 17:11:06 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Backup the postgres configs and database files, emerge -C all postgres >> versions, make sure there are no files left with postgres in the name, >> and emerge the version back that you want. Restore your backed up >> configs just in case the ebuild wreaked them. Start postgres, the db >> should be unaffected as all you did was replace binary code files. > > Thank you Alan for your help. I reinstalled the previous version 9.5.7, ran > eselect to (re)set postgresql to 9.6. Then uninstalled 9.5.7 and ended up > with a boxfull of broken symlinks again. o_O > > At this stage I could have done what you suggested, but instead I ran: > > find /usr/include -type l | while read f; do if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then ls -l > "$f"; fi; done > > which came up with a list of broken symlinks and repeated for /usr/bin and > /var/lib64. Removed/restored all broken symlinks to point to the new version > and restarted the database. > > Everything seems to be working as it should now. I don't know what to blame > now. My upgrade process which seems to have gone sideways this time, or the > eselect tool which may need to get cleverer with this package. >
Glad to hear you got it all fixed. btw, there's a useful tool symlinks from the app-misc/symlinks packages that doues what you wanted with find without having to use find -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
