Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo messed up after upgrade

[Dale]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Montag 02 Februar 2009, Miernik wrote:
>
>> After running 'emerge -uD world' I have many things messed-up, besides
>> the unability of firefox to do DNS resolve for most (but not all) URLs.
>> ssh also can't DNS resolve some hosts (but ping can on the same hosts).
>>
>> All my manpages look like this:
>>
>> ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m
>>        ls - list directory contents
>>
>> ESC[1mSYNOPSISESC[0m
>>        ESC[1mls ESC[22m[ESC[4mOPTIONESC[24m]... [ESC[4mFILEESC[24m]...
>>
>> Many programs fail to start:
>>
>> miernik@przehyba ~ $ gnumeric
>> gnumeric: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libspreadsheet-1.8.4.so: undefined
>> symbol: g_dgettext
>>
>> miernik@przehyba ~ $ oowriter
>> /usr/lib64/openoffice/program/soffice.bin:
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6: version
>> LIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by
>> /usr/lib64/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libbasegfxlx.so)
>>
>> miernik@przehyba ~ $ eix glibc
>> eix: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6: version
>> LIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by eix)
>>
>> Before I had ~amd64 in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, but in the middle of this
>> upgrade I thought it was a bad idea, because many programs failed to
>> compile, so I removed that from make.conf, and did run
>> 'emerge --empty-tree world'
>> which downgraded everything back to stable. But one thing I couldn't
>> downgrade was glibc which stayed at version
>> sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r1
>>
>> XTerm is not using my ~/.Xresources settings.
>>
>> Is there any way I can possibly fix my system?
>>
>
> yes, revdep-rebuilt.
>
>
>

Typo there I think.  Try revdep-rebuild -i and see if that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)