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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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