Re: [gentoo-user] Infinite loop in revdep-rebuild with firefox-17.0.2

[Jean-Christophe Bach]

* Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> [24.01.2013. @11:25:45 +0000]:

> Hi, Gentoo!
>
> A couple of days ago, I merged firefox-17.0.2 and ran revdep-rebuild -p.
> It said, strangely, that some firefox libraries needed rebuilding.
>
> I've just let revdep-rebuild rebuild firefox.  I run revdep-rebuild -p
> again, and it's still saying these libraries need rebuilding.  This
> isn't good.
>
> Here's some output from revdep-rebuild -p:
>
>  * Checking dynamic linking consistency
> [ 100% ]
>  *   broken /usr/lib64/firefox/libxpcom.so (no version information available)
>  *   broken /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container (no version information available)
>  *   broken /usr/lib64/firefox/sdk/bin/xpcshell (no version information available)
>  *   broken /usr/lib64/firefox/sdk/lib/libxpcom.so (no version information available)
>  * Generated new 3_broken.rr
>  * Assigning files to packages
>  *   /usr/lib64/firefox/libxpcom.so -> www-client/firefox
>  *   /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container -> www-client/firefox
>  *   /usr/lib64/firefox/sdk/bin/xpcshell -> www-client/firefox
>  *   /usr/lib64/firefox/sdk/lib/libxpcom.so -> www-client/firefox
>
> The problem seems to be the "no version information available".
> revdep-rebuild is now less useful than it should be.
>
> Has anybody else encountered this problem, and what is the best way to
> solve it?
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Hi,

I also had this problem: it was due to the fact I had an old version of
xulrunner installed on my computer.
To address the problem, I only removed xulrunner :
  rm -Rf /usr/lib/xulrunner-*

But I think that it would have been better to clean it by using :
  emerge -aC xulrunner

Hope it will solve your infinite revdep-rebuild loop,

JC