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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Thursday 01 July 2010 00:15:34 Mick wrote: |
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>>> I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back |
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>>> then: |
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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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>>> repeat till no problems reported |
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>>> and lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix as well just for good |
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>>> measure. |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> This is called the "throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks" |
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>>> method of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me. |
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>>> aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-) |
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>> I'm sure that I followed your scientific approach too because my system |
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>> still works ... although I may have lost the will to live somewhere in |
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>> between the lafilefixer and revdep-rebuild for the nth time and decided to |
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>> emerge -e world. :-)) |
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>> Strangely enough two other x86 boxen were updated without any much drama. |
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> :-) |
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> On the front page of gentoo.org several blogs are reference that mention this |
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> issue. In one of them, the author shows evidence that the same binary was |
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> trying to link at one point to a 32 bit lib and at another point link to a 64 |
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> bit lib..... All random of course, causing no end of mysterious failures, and |
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> explains why some people had success re-merging cairo, other with something |
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> else .... |
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> Truly bizarre. But it might go a ways to explaining why your 32 bit systems |
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> were unaffected? |
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I followed flameeyes blog and everything worked fine. I umerged libpng, |
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tried to do a rm but there was nothing left to rm, then ran |
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revdep-rebuild -i. It was ~45 packages, most of them big I might add, |
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but it ran all the way through without stopping. |
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Naturally there is no way to know what would have happened if I did it |
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some other way but flameeyes' way worked for me. |
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Now to go catch up on all the emails I got. X would not start during |
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the upgrade. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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