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On Tuesday 23 May 2006 15:31, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 14:40, Hamish Marson wrote: |
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> > Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > On Friday 12 May 2006 19:16, Duncan wrote: |
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> > >> You hit the infamous libexpat bug! |
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> > > I did too, and after several attempts to get revdep-rebuild to fix |
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> > > the problem I gave up and reinstalled from scratch. Now I can't get |
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> > > arts to run - it gobbles 95% CPU from when I log in to when artsd |
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> > > gets killed on a cpu overload. I've raised a bug on this. |
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> > Infamous expat bug? Would this be where you update libexpat because |
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> > something wants the later verison & then everythig fails because it |
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> > can't find libexpat.0? |
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> > Grr... I hit that last night... I'm still running an emerge -D world |
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> > to re-install everything (Since revdep-rebuild failed for me). |
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> What you can do to keep a useable system in the meantime is to create a |
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> symbolic link from "/usr/lib/libexpat.so.1" to "/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0". As |
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> the ABI did not actually change this is sufficient to keep things working |
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> while you recompile the stuff. |
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if you do that, and remove the libexpat.so.0 symlimk after the rebuild, a lot |
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of things will stop working ;) |
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Been there, done that, did not help. |
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Removing libexpat.so.0 and revdep-rebuild did the job. |
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