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On 8 July 2010 21:16, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Nicholas Robbins posted on Thu, 08 Jul 2010 08:09:24 -0700 as excerpted: |
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>> Just a me-too message. I recently started having these crashes as well. |
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>> They started about when I upgraded to libpng1.4. |
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> Ugh. Sounds like you still have the earlier version, and some library |
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> using it, while another pulls in the new version, with both used by kmail, |
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> so it's pulling in both versions into the same executable, and that's a |
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> certain recipe for disaster, or at least crashes. |
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> I take it you've completed a revdep-rebuild and running it now comes up |
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> clean? Do you run with as-needed in your ldflags? That will certainly |
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> help, as will having lafilefixer in your portage post-install hooked |
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> routines. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you may want to read |
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> up on flameeyes' blog... the mentioned tricks can definitely save you a |
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> **LOT** of trouble.) |
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> What about depclean? Do you use it regularly? |
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> If you're not doing that sort of stuff routinely, it may be that a |
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> complete emerge --emptytree world is needed to get the cruft cleaned out, |
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> but before you go to that trouble, I'd suggest setting up as-needed in |
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> your ldflags, lafilefixer in your post-install, doing a --depclean -- |
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> pretend and adding to world what you don't want removed, and consider |
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> setting FEATURES=buildpkg, before you do the rebuild, so that when you're |
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> done, you'll have the full world built cleanly with those options, and |
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> binpkg backups for every package, as well. After that it should be MUCH |
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> easier to keep up with routine maintenance, always doing a revdep-rebuild |
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> and a depclean (I always use ask, to see what it's going to do, before |
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> letting it go ahead, for both of these), after every update or package |
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> removal. |
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> Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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> and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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Do none of these kmail crashes produce a crash dump or backtrace? If |
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it is the png issue, it's pretty easy to spot from a crash dump in my |
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experience. |
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