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On Wednesday 30 June 2010 22:52:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:17:28 Mick wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never |
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> > > got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now. |
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> > > |
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> > > Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs |
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> > > to be done: |
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> > > |
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> > > http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update |
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> > > |
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> > > If you are a stable user, save yourself a lot of trouble over the next |
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> > > few days, read his blog and do what he says. He has this uncanny |
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> > > ability of almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters |
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> > |
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> > Blast! I emerged media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 only 2 days ago and ... I |
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> > followed what the elog told me which was to run the very scrip that |
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> > Flameeyes says it causes long term problems! O_O |
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> > |
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> > This is what I have in terms of libpng* (on an amd64 system): |
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> > |
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> > # ls -la /usr/lib/libpng* |
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> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.a |
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> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng14.la |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so -> |
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> > libpng14.so.14.3.0 |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 -> |
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> > libpng14.so.14.3.0 |
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> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0 |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.a -> |
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> > libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng.la |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.so -> |
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> > libpng14.so |
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> > |
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> > # ls -la /usr/lib64/libpng* |
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> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.a |
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> > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng14.la |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so -> |
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> > libpng14.so.14.3.0 |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 -> |
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> > libpng14.so.14.3.0 |
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> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14.3.0 |
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> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.a -> |
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> > libpng14.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 |
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> > /usr/lib64/libpng.la lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 |
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> > /usr/lib64/libpng.so -> libpng14.so |
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> > |
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> > Is this OK? What now? |
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> I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back |
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> then: |
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> unmerge libpng |
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> delete everything left with libpng in it's name |
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> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted |
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> same with revdep-rebuild |
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> re-emerge libpng and let portage pick the version to merge |
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> emerge -avuND world |
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> revdep-rebuild |
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> repeat till no problems reported |
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> and lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix as well just for good |
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> measure. |
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> This is called the "throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks" |
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> method of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me. |
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> aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-) |
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I'm sure that I followed your scientific approach too because my system still |
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works ... although I may have lost the will to live somewhere in between the |
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lafilefixer and revdep-rebuild for the nth time and decided to emerge -e |
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world. :-)) |
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Strangely enough two other x86 boxen were updated without any much drama. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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