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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fallible revdep-rebuild
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:26:14
Message-Id: 201308201925.53191.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Fallible revdep-rebuild by Peter Humphrey
1 On Tuesday 20 Aug 2013 16:10:59 Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > Hi List,
3 >
4 > The other day my LAN server had an upgrade to PHP, from 5.4.17 to 5.5. Next
5 > time apache restarted, it couldn't because it was looking for
6 > /usr/lib/apache2/modules/libphp.5.so. The library seemed to be in place,
7 > but in fact it was a broken symlink to
8 > /usr/lib/php5.4/apache2/libphp.5.so.
9 >
10 > Running revdep-rebuild failed to find the problem (though it did find a
11 > problem with cairo, so I didn't mind the time spent). I had to remerge PHP
12 > myself to fix it.
13 >
14 > Just a little cautionary tale.
15
16 I had the same symptom. Just as I was about to manually remove the old and
17 create my own new symlinks, I remembered that these days eselect looks after
18 such things. So I used eselect to declare php-cli, apache2 and some such
19 links. Restarted apache and all worked fine.
20
21 --
22 Regards,
23 Mick

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