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On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > |
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> > as I have just bitten by it, have a look at |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 |
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> > |
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> > before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) |
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> > |
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> > since this breaks any X11-application (including your |
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> > browser to look at the URL above) |
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> > |
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> > Such an update should be DOUBLY MASKED !!! |
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> > |
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> > And the messages coming with libxcb just don't help. |
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> > revdep-rebuild doesn't help either. |
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> > |
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> > And one cannot remerge the broken packages either, |
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> > since there configure bails out. |
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> > |
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> > Oh dear, Gentoo ! |
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> |
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> It temporarily broke my system too, but nothing dramatic: |
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> |
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> emerge -1 -j4 \ |
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> $(for i in x11-proto/ x11-libs/libxcb x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext \ |
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> x11-libs/libX x11-libs/xcb-util x11-libs/cairo \ |
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> x11-libs/pango x11-libs/gtk+ gnome-base/libgnomeui \ |
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> x11-libs/qt-gui; do \ |
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> qlist -IC $i; \ |
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> done) -v |
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> |
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> resulted in a build failure (a package complained about missing symbols |
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> in libxcb-xlib.so during the link step). According to the upgrade |
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> guide, that was not supposed to happen. The fix was easy though; I just |
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> ran revdep-rebuild at this point (not many packages needed a rebuild, I |
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> guess having "--as-needed" in my LDFLAGS saved the day) and then I |
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> repeated the command, finally deleted /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so* and |
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> everything was fine. |
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> One other slight breakage was revdep-rebuild wanting to rebuilt the same |
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> package over and over again. If revdep-rebuild wants to repeatedly |
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> rebuild a package, you have to unmerge that package first and then |
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> re-run revdep-rebuild; only then will you see the final packages that |
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> need to be rebuild (in my case, kde-base/systemsettings). |
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> Of course, rebooting the machine before finishing all of this is not a |
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> good idea. |
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yeah, almost the same here. Removed the file first, run the la fixer then revdep- |
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rebuilt and everything was fine. |
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