Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

[Frank Steinmetzger]

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 09:59:20PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2017-05-23 23:16, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>
> > KDE doesn’t find my beloved terminus font anymore, both on my PC and
> > my laptop.  It does not show up in any font selection dialog. The same
> > goes for GTK applications such as gimp (GTK2) and firefox (GTK3). No
> > Terminus anywhere.
> >
> > Does that ring a bell with anyone?
>
> Yes:
>
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618918
>
> I seem to scent a faint Poettering type hormone in the air around
> freetype :-(

Ah, thank you very very much. I’ll be offline for the next few days and it’s
nice to know a solution. Coulda thunk myself to look at bgo.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 20 May 2017 18:39:07 Kai Krakow wrote:
> Am Sat, 20 May 2017 16:36:08 +0100
> 
> schrieb Mick :
> > On Saturday 20 May 2017 10:48:52 Mick wrote:
> > > On Saturday 20 May 2017 03:19:20 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 20 May 2017 00:26:58 Kai Krakow wrote:
> >  [...]
> >  [...]
> >  [...]
> >  [...]
> >  [...]
> >  [...]
> >  
> > > > After all that, KMail now works as it did before.
> >  
> >  [...]
> >  
> > > > Mick might like to try that, perhaps. I assume the effect will be
> > > > the same.
> > > 
> > > Thanks Peter.  First PC is going through it.  91 packages!
> > 
> > It seems revdep-rebuild'ing against library='libQtCore.so.4' also
> > rebuilds the newly installed Qt packages.  This is why there so many
> > packages to rebuild.
> 
> That's why I suggested using "--changed-deps": It doesn't rebuild
> packages that provide the library itself and have already been built
> after the library provider...
> 
> OTOH, it doesn't check binary dependence, just what is written into the
> ebuilds itself. But it should work most of the time.
> 
> A combination of two emerge invocations may work, too:
> 
> # emerge -DNua world --changed-deps
> # emerge -1a @preserved-rebuild --changed-deps
> 
> This also worked well for me when I did the gcc upgrade.
> 
> But I think the need to use changed-deps to rebuild dependers should be
> considered a bug and be reported. Portage has support for sub-slot
> dependencies to describe such binary breakage during upgrades and
> automatically rebuild the dependers.

Have you seen https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595618 ? It says that 
"Qt plugins compiled with gcc-4 are incompatible with 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 20 May 2017 16:36:08 Mick wrote:

> It seems revdep-rebuild'ing against library='libQtCore.so.4' also rebuilds
> the newly installed Qt packages.  This is why there so many packages to
> rebuild.

I hadn't notice that, but now you mention it I had 14 dev-qt packages, 41 
kde-apps and 3 kde-plasma among my 71.

All's well that ends well.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

[Mick]

On Saturday 20 May 2017 10:48:52 Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 20 May 2017 03:19:20 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday 20 May 2017 00:26:58 Kai Krakow wrote:
> > > Am Fri, 19 May 2017 22:50:06 +0100
> > > 
> > > schrieb Peter Humphrey :
> > > > On Friday 19 May 2017 15:15:24 Mick wrote:
> > > > > On Friday 19 May 2017 13:43:24 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > > > Hello list,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Today's update broke KMail. 15 dev-qt packages were upgraded from
> > > > > > 4.8.6 to 4.8.7, and when I logged out, restarted xdm and logged
> > > > > > in again, KMail's folder list showed all the folders in red, and
> > > > > > the other two panes were blank. Akonadiconsole showed the LAN
> > > > > > Mail agent offline, broken.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > In case anyone else falls over this one, I've raised this bug;
> > > > > > it's been confirmed by one other user so far:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618922
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Has anyone found a fix for this?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I haven't run an update yet, but thank you for bringing this to our
> > > > > attention. I'll stay put on 4.8.6-r2, until the bug is resolved.
> > > > 
> > > > Apparently, a revdep-rebuild fixes it: revdep-rebuild --
> > > > library='libQtCore.so.4'
> > > > 
> > > > 71 packages! See you in the morning - I don't intend to sit and wait
> > > > while the likes of qtwebkit and libreoffice compiling.
> > 
> > After all that, KMail now works as it did before.
> > 
> > > You could try "emerge -DNua world --changed-deps" to fix such problems.
> > > It should work even when already upgraded.
> > 
> > Mick might like to try that, perhaps. I assume the effect will be the
> > same.
> 
> Thanks Peter.  First PC is going through it.  91 packages!

It seems revdep-rebuild'ing against library='libQtCore.so.4' also rebuilds the 
newly installed Qt packages.  This is why there so many packages to rebuild.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

[Mick]

On Saturday 20 May 2017 03:19:20 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 20 May 2017 00:26:58 Kai Krakow wrote:
> > Am Fri, 19 May 2017 22:50:06 +0100
> > 
> > schrieb Peter Humphrey :
> > > On Friday 19 May 2017 15:15:24 Mick wrote:
> > > > On Friday 19 May 2017 13:43:24 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > > Hello list,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Today's update broke KMail. 15 dev-qt packages were upgraded from
> > > > > 4.8.6 to 4.8.7, and when I logged out, restarted xdm and logged
> > > > > in again, KMail's folder list showed all the folders in red, and
> > > > > the other two panes were blank. Akonadiconsole showed the LAN
> > > > > Mail agent offline, broken.
> > > > > 
> > > > > In case anyone else falls over this one, I've raised this bug;
> > > > > it's been confirmed by one other user so far:
> > > > > 
> > > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618922
> > > > > 
> > > > > Has anyone found a fix for this?
> > > > 
> > > > I haven't run an update yet, but thank you for bringing this to our
> > > > attention. I'll stay put on 4.8.6-r2, until the bug is resolved.
> > > 
> > > Apparently, a revdep-rebuild fixes it: revdep-rebuild --
> > > library='libQtCore.so.4'
> > > 
> > > 71 packages! See you in the morning - I don't intend to sit and wait
> > > while the likes of qtwebkit and libreoffice compiling.
> 
> After all that, KMail now works as it did before.
> 
> > You could try "emerge -DNua world --changed-deps" to fix such problems.
> > It should work even when already upgraded.
> 
> Mick might like to try that, perhaps. I assume the effect will be the same.

Thanks Peter.  First PC is going through it.  91 packages!

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Qt-4.8.7 bug

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 20 May 2017 00:26:58 Kai Krakow wrote:
> Am Fri, 19 May 2017 22:50:06 +0100
> 
> schrieb Peter Humphrey :
> > On Friday 19 May 2017 15:15:24 Mick wrote:
> > > On Friday 19 May 2017 13:43:24 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > Hello list,
> > > > 
> > > > Today's update broke KMail. 15 dev-qt packages were upgraded from
> > > > 4.8.6 to 4.8.7, and when I logged out, restarted xdm and logged
> > > > in again, KMail's folder list showed all the folders in red, and
> > > > the other two panes were blank. Akonadiconsole showed the LAN
> > > > Mail agent offline, broken.
> > > > 
> > > > In case anyone else falls over this one, I've raised this bug;
> > > > it's been confirmed by one other user so far:
> > > > 
> > > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618922
> > > > 
> > > > Has anyone found a fix for this?
> > > 
> > > I haven't run an update yet, but thank you for bringing this to our
> > > attention. I'll stay put on 4.8.6-r2, until the bug is resolved.
> > 
> > Apparently, a revdep-rebuild fixes it: revdep-rebuild --
> > library='libQtCore.so.4'
> > 
> > 71 packages! See you in the morning - I don't intend to sit and wait
> > while the likes of qtwebkit and libreoffice compiling.

After all that, KMail now works as it did before.

> You could try "emerge -DNua world --changed-deps" to fix such problems.
> It should work even when already upgraded.

Mick might like to try that, perhaps. I assume the effect will be the same.

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Peter