Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with libxcb (and others)

[Philip Webb]

110426 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> My system is ~amd64.
> For example evolution fails to start and says
>   gottlieb@ajglap ~ $ evolution
>   evolution: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-aux.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> There is no libxcb-aux now on my system nor is there an libxcb-atom,
> which revdep rebuild mentioned.

I have

  root:512 lib64> ls -l libxcb-aux.*
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  8362 Oct  3  2009 libxcb-aux.a
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   984 Jul  3  2010 libxcb-aux.la
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 Oct  3  2009 libxcb-aux.so -> libxcb-aux.so.0.0.0
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    19 Oct  3  2009 libxcb-aux.so.0 -> libxcb-aux.so.0.0.0
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 14232 Oct  3  2009 libxcb-aux.so.0.0.0

also  libxcb-atom.so.1.0.0 : both were installed by  x11-libs/xcb-util-0.3.6 .

> Something must have gone quite wrong in my last update world.

It's always a bad idea to do 'emerge world' (without '-p'):
I have always made a hand-written list of pkgs to be upgraded,
then emerged them individually or in small groups.
People are continually reporting problems which I have avoided since 2003 .

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