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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade and firefox/seamonkey issues
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 05:30:26
Message-Id: 56287465.60509@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] glibc upgrade and firefox/seamonkey issues by Dale
1 Dale wrote:
2 > Walter Dnes wrote:
3 >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 07:57:32PM -0500, Dale wrote
4 >>> Howdy,
5 >>>
6 >>> I recently did a upgrade which included glibc. Now both Firefox and
7 >>> Seamonkey has problems starting. I have several profiles and some work
8 >>> and some don't. Using safe-mode works which makes me think the
9 >>> browsers
10 >>> themselves are OK but something else got messed up. The only package I
11 >>> see that I just updated is glibc that might could cause this issue.
12 >>> This is the recent emerge list from emerge.log:
13 >> [...deletia...]
14 >>
15 >>> I thought about going back to the old version of glibc but we know that
16 >>> is not a good idea. That one is sort of a one way street. If no one
17 >>> has any ideas, I may try a emerge -e world and see if that helps any.
18 >> Try revdep-rebuild first.
19 >>
20 >
21 >
22 > Thanks Walter. I haven't ran that in so long I forgot it was even
23 > there. Giving that a try.
24 >
25 > I still can't make much sense out of the add-on thing. It's just so
26 > random. It dies, then it works, then it dies again. Weird.
27 >
28 > Thanks again.
29 >
30 > Dale
31 >
32 > :-) :-)
33 >
34
35
36 Well revdep-rebuild came back clean. I'm doing a emerge -e world at the
37 moment. I'm hoping it is just something out of sync here.
38
39 Oh, I also synced the tree again to just in case. Nothing changed. Of
40 course, it had only been one day but still.
41
42 Dale
43
44 :-) :-)

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[gentoo-user] Re: glibc upgrade and firefox/seamonkey issues James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>