Tres Melton wrote:
> Yesterday I had a situation that required me to run revdep-rebuild, and
> after a number of runs + some manual emerges I got:
> 
> thor:/home/tres # rm /root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_* ; revdep-rebuild
> rm: cannot remove `/root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_*': No such file or
> directory
> 
> Checking reverse dependencies...
> Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update,
> will be recompiled.
> 
> Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)
> 
> Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)
> 
> Checking dynamic linking consistency...
>   broken /usr/kde/3.3/lib/kde3/kio_http.so (requires libcom_err.so.3)
>   broken /usr/kde/3.3/lib/kde3/noatunblurscope.so (requires
> libdirectfb-0.9.so.21 libfusion-0.9.so.21 libdirect-0.9.so.21)
>  done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)
> 
> Assigning files to ebuilds... done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds)
> 
> Evaluating package order... done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)
> 
> Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. 
> thor:/home/tres # 
> 
> The original problem happened when Evolution couldn't find
> libcom_err.so.3 because it got nuked somewhere.  I emerged the package
> that provides it (sys-libs/com_err) and then ran revdep-rebuild + a
> couple of manual emerges (ehtereal + DirectFB) and a re-run of
> revdep-rebuild and I got the exact same thing as listed above.
> revdep-rebuild is noticing two things with broken linking but doing
> nothing to rectify the situation.  I re-emerged kdelibs and then re-ran
> revdep-rebuild but got the same messages.
> 
> Any ideas on what to try now?
> 
> version line from revdep-rebuild:
> # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoolkit/src/revdep-rebuild/revdep-rebuild,v
> 1.3 2004/01/07 12:21:21 karltk Exp $
> 
> 
> Thanks,

Try the latest revdep-rebuild from ~amd64 gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre4.  Many others have experienced this problem: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-348311-highlight-.html

Zac
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