AWK with xml????? BRRRRRR! Such a base tool shouldn't ... hmmm, that's not our turn. Is there an ebuild for another version of awk/nawk in the portage?
Thanks Frank On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:25 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:09:15 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Well, I updated my system and rebooted, only to find that I cannot get > > back in. As soon as udev tries to start, I get errors about unable to > > locate libexpat.so.0. > > > > I booted from the LiveCD and had no drive issues. I emerged both > > libexpat and udev to see if either of these were the culprit, but to no > > avail. > > I got bitten in the arse by this one too. the problem is the new gawk > ebuild, with xml support. If you have xml in your USE flags, gawk is built > dynamically linked to libexpat, which isinstalled in /usr/lib. But gawk > is used by the rc scripts before partitions other than / are mounted. If > you have /usr on a separate partition if barfs, / is left mounted ro, lvm > can't mount your virtual partitions because it can't write to > /etc/lvm.conf and the world falls apart. it was made worse for me because > the messages flashed by too fast to see, and the subsequent errors filled > the terminal scrollback buffer :( > > The short term kludge, to get the system to boot again, is to copy > libexpat from /usr/lib to /lib. This works until a libexpat upgrade leaves > you with two versions. If you don't need the xml support in gawk, rebuild > it with -xml. > > See http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81823 > > -- Frank Schafer System specialist T-Systems Czech s.r.o. Kloboučnická 1435/24, 140 00 Praha 4 Tel.: +420 296529522 Fax: +420 296529129 Mobil: +420 605 202 419 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet: http://www.t-systems.cz -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
