On Friday 25 September 2009, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> I keep getting this mesaage on one particulary system:
>
> existing preserved libs:
> package: sys-libs/readline-6.0_p3
> * - /lib64/libreadline.so
> * - /lib64/libreadline.so.5
> * - /lib64/libreadline.so.5.2
> * used by /usr/bin/calgebra (kde-base/kalgebra-4.2.4)
>
>
> So I've rebuilt kalgegra, readline and revdep-rebuild comes
> up clean. I ran 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' numerous times
> and still I get this error message.
I had exactly the same problem. I solved it by deleting
/var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry with no ill effects (since revdep-
rebuild was clean).
HTH
-Robin
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