Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
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. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
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. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
100704 Dale wrote: 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. That's why I stopped using a GUI login many years ago (smile). I login to a raw terminal, then 'startx': avoids lots of troubles. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
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 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
Philip Webb wrote: 100704 Dale wrote: 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. That's why I stopped using a GUI login many years ago (smile). I login to a raw terminal, then 'startx': avoids lots of troubles. Wouldn't help if KDE wouldn't load tho. A lot of the packages being rebuilt was KDE after all. One of them kdelibs which is a biggie. Hmmm, spell check likes the word biggie now. Odd. I guess Wendy's hit big time. lol Also, I use Seamonkey to surf and check emails and it was being rebuilt too. If I had known this before hand tho, I would have waited until I was going to bed and let it compile while I was napping. Roughly 12 hours of compile time. :/ Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
Mick wrote: On Sunday 04 July 2010 17:24:52 Dale wrote: 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 Everything is working fine. It just wasn't as bad a upgrade as I thought it would be. No serious problems or anything. Just a lot of packages to recompile is all. Of course, if I had known the new KDE was coming out, I would have waited until today. The new KDE 4.4.5 is out. Now I get to recompile the rest of KDE. :-) Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2010 00:15:34 Mick wrote: I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then: 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 and lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix as well just for good measure. This is called the throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks method of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me. aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-) I'm sure that I followed your scientific approach too because my system still works ... although I may have lost the will to live somewhere in between the lafilefixer and revdep-rebuild for the nth time and decided to emerge -e world. :-)) Strangely enough two other x86 boxen were updated without any much drama. :-) On the front page of gentoo.org several blogs are reference that mention this issue. In one of them, the author shows evidence that the same binary was trying to link at one point to a 32 bit lib and at another point link to a 64 bit lib. All random of course, causing no end of mysterious failures, and explains why some people had success re-merging cairo, other with something else Truly bizarre. But it might go a ways to explaining why your 32 bit systems were unaffected? I followed flameeyes blog and everything worked fine. I umerged libpng, tried to do a rm but there was nothing left to rm, then ran revdep-rebuild -i. It was ~45 packages, most of them big I might add, but it ran all the way through without stopping. Naturally there is no way to know what would have happened if I did it some other way but flameeyes' way worked for me. Now to go catch up on all the emails I got. X would not start during the upgrade. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 02:16:36 Willie Wong wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
He has this uncanny ability of almost
always being correct on technical toolchain matters
I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking
about. It's like saying Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability
of almost always being correct on technical CD{ROM,R,RW} DVD, or
Dale has this uncanny ability of almost always jumping into a HAL
bashing thread...
:-)
Thanks for the link as always.
W
That's very funny :-)
I'm sure Dale appreciates being mentioned in the same sentence as flameeyes
and Joerg good one!
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 02:16:36 Willie Wong wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
He has this uncanny ability of almost
always being correct on technical toolchain matters
I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking
about. It's like saying Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability
of almost always being correct on technical CD{ROM,R,RW} DVD, or
Dale has this uncanny ability of almost always jumping into a HAL
bashing thread...
:-)
Thanks for the link as always.
W
That's very funny :-)
I'm sure Dale appreciates being mentioned in the same sentence as flameeyes
and Joerg good one!
I thought it was flattery myself. I don't know a lot about flameeyes
but Joerg sure does know CD and DVD stuff. He does write the code for
cdrtools which works very well right? It is better than the
alternative for sure, since it doesn't work.
Now since even the person that wrote hal figured out it was a flop and
needed to die, isn't that enough said? After all, the developer knows
it doesn't work very well with xorg so they are trying something new
from the ground up. Sort of seems to me that me and old Joerg are
right. LOL
Sort of funny in a way. lol
Dale
:-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote: Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be done: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update If you are a stable user, save yourself a lot of trouble over the next few days, read his blog and do what he says. He has this uncanny ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters Blast! I emerged media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 only 2 days ago and ... I followed what the elog told me which was to run the very scrip that Flameeyes says it causes long term problems! O_O This is what I have in terms of libpng* (on an amd64 system): # ls -la /usr/lib/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so - libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 - libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.a - libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.so - libpng14.so # ls -la /usr/lib64/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so - libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 - libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.a - libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.so - libpng14.so Is this OK? What now? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On 06/30/2010 02:17 PM, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote: Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be done: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update If you are a stable user, save yourself a lot of trouble over the next few days, read his blog and do what he says. He has this uncanny ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters Blast! I emerged media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 only 2 days ago and ... I followed what the elog told me which was to run the very scrip that Flameeyes says it causes long term problems! O_O This is what I have in terms of libpng* (on an amd64 system): # ls -la /usr/lib/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so - libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 - libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.a - libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.so - libpng14.so # ls -la /usr/lib64/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so - libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 - libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.a - libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.so - libpng14.so Is this OK? What now? Just run revdep-rebuild --keep-going a few times with a lafilefixer thrown in here and there for good measure. If you're really paranoid, you'll recompile all libpng's dependencies
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:17:28 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote: Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be done: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update If you are a stable user, save yourself a lot of trouble over the next few days, read his blog and do what he says. He has this uncanny ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters Blast! I emerged media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 only 2 days ago and ... I followed what the elog told me which was to run the very scrip that Flameeyes says it causes long term problems! O_O This is what I have in terms of libpng* (on an amd64 system): # ls -la /usr/lib/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so - libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 - libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.a - libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.so - libpng14.so # ls -la /usr/lib64/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so - libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 - libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.a - libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.so - libpng14.so Is this OK? What now? I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then: 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 and lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix as well just for good measure. This is called the throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks method of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me. aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 22:52:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:17:28 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote: Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be done: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update If you are a stable user, save yourself a lot of trouble over the next few days, read his blog and do what he says. He has this uncanny ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters Blast! I emerged media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 only 2 days ago and ... I followed what the elog told me which was to run the very scrip that Flameeyes says it causes long term problems! O_O This is what I have in terms of libpng* (on an amd64 system): # ls -la /usr/lib/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so - libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 - libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.a - libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.so - libpng14.so # ls -la /usr/lib64/libpng* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng14.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so - libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 - libpng14.so.14.3.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14.3.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.a - libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.so - libpng14.so Is this OK? What now? I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then: 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 and lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix as well just for good measure. This is called the throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks method of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me. aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-) I'm sure that I followed your scientific approach too because my system still works ... although I may have lost the will to live somewhere in between the lafilefixer and revdep-rebuild for the nth time and decided to emerge -e world. :-)) Strangely enough two other x86 boxen were updated without any much drama. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Thursday 01 July 2010 00:15:34 Mick wrote: I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then: 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 and lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix as well just for good measure. This is called the throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks method of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me. aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-) I'm sure that I followed your scientific approach too because my system still works ... although I may have lost the will to live somewhere in between the lafilefixer and revdep-rebuild for the nth time and decided to emerge -e world. :-)) Strangely enough two other x86 boxen were updated without any much drama. :-) On the front page of gentoo.org several blogs are reference that mention this issue. In one of them, the author shows evidence that the same binary was trying to link at one point to a 32 bit lib and at another point link to a 64 bit lib. All random of course, causing no end of mysterious failures, and explains why some people had success re-merging cairo, other with something else Truly bizarre. But it might go a ways to explaining why your 32 bit systems were unaffected? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:52:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: This is called the throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks method of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me. I posted a script/one-liner I used to fix this at the time it hit stable, which fixed the problem more cleanly. It was still throwing shit at a wall, but with telescopic sights :) -- Neil Bothwick As long as you do not move you can still choose any direction. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 22:30:27 Bill Longman wrote: If you're really paranoid, you'll recompile all libpng's dependencies No, that's not Really paranoid; Really paranoid is embarking on an emerge -e world. And a lot of people have done just that. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
[gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be done: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update If you are a stable user, save yourself a lot of trouble over the next few days, read his blog and do what he says. He has this uncanny ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
He has this uncanny ability of almost
always being correct on technical toolchain matters
I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking
about. It's like saying Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability
of almost always being correct on technical CD{ROM,R,RW} DVD, or
Dale has this uncanny ability of almost always jumping into a HAL
bashing thread...
:-)
Thanks for the link as always.
W
--
Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
