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On Sunday 04 July 2010 17:24:52 Dale wrote: |
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> Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > 100630 Willie Wong wrote: |
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> >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> >>> unmerge libpng |
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> >>> delete everything left with libpng in it's name |
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> >>> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted |
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> >>> same with revdep-rebuild |
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> >>> re-emerge libpng and let portage pick the version to merge |
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> >>> emerge -avuND world |
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> >>> revdep-rebuild |
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> >>> repeat till no problems reported |
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> >>> lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix just for good measure. |
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> >> |
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> >> Am I just extremely lucky or something? |
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> >> libpng was installed, slotted on Tuesday May 11 nothing broke. |
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> >> Didn't run lafilefixer, but did run revdep-rebuild a few times |
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> >> and two deep world updates since then. |
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> >> Should I let my breath out now, or should I not be surprised |
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> >> if this "problem" hits a few weeks down the road? |
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> > |
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> > My experience spread over 2 days was fairly straightforward. |
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> > (1) Emerged Libpng 1.4.3 ; (2) 'revdep-rebuild' showed 42 rebuilds, |
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> > some of which wouldn't compile ; (3) 'lafilefixer --justfixit' helped ; |
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> > (4) 'r-r' showed a much shorter list ; (5) KDE (3 or 4) wouldn't start, |
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> > so re-merge Qt3 Kdelibs3& Ksokoban Kmahjongg3 Kworldclock ; |
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> > (6) re-merged Qt4 (9 pkgs) Kdelibs4 Speedcrunch ; (7) along the way, |
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> > a few other pkgs needed re-merging, eg Openmotif for Xpdf ; |
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> > (8) Xulrunner& Openoffice were listed by 'r-r', but seem ok asis ; |
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> > (9) I deleted the Libpng '12' lib, which is now obsolete. |
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> > |
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> > HTH anyone else updating: just allow a few hours for re-merging. |
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> I'm not alone then. My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm |
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> wouldn't start. Sort of have to have one to get to the other. I didn't |
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> like the idea of not having my GUI either. :-( |
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> I didn't run lafilefixer on mine but all my packages compiled on the |
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> first try. I had 45 or so to compile on here. Weird. I was expecting |
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> at least one to fail. |
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Run lafilefixer --justfixit and then revdep-rebuild -v -i. You may have to |
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rinse and repeat more than once. |
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I was getting symptoms like yours only to discover that I had many more |
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packages that needed remerging. |
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YMMV |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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