On Dienstag 15 September 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 09/15/2009 10:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > as I have just bitten by it, have a look at > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 > > > > before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) > > > > since this breaks any X11-application (including your > > browser to look at the URL above) > > > > Such an update should be DOUBLY MASKED !!! > > > > And the messages coming with libxcb just don't help. > > revdep-rebuild doesn't help either. > > > > And one cannot remerge the broken packages either, > > since there configure bails out. > > > > Oh dear, Gentoo ! > > It temporarily broke my system too, but nothing dramatic: > > emerge -1 -j4 \ > $(for i in x11-proto/ x11-libs/libxcb x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext \ > x11-libs/libX x11-libs/xcb-util x11-libs/cairo \ > x11-libs/pango x11-libs/gtk+ gnome-base/libgnomeui \ > x11-libs/qt-gui; do \ > qlist -IC $i; \ > done) -v > > resulted in a build failure (a package complained about missing symbols > in libxcb-xlib.so during the link step). According to the upgrade > guide, that was not supposed to happen. The fix was easy though; I just > ran revdep-rebuild at this point (not many packages needed a rebuild, I > guess having "--as-needed" in my LDFLAGS saved the day) and then I > repeated the command, finally deleted /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so* and > everything was fine. > > One other slight breakage was revdep-rebuild wanting to rebuilt the same > package over and over again. If revdep-rebuild wants to repeatedly > rebuild a package, you have to unmerge that package first and then > re-run revdep-rebuild; only then will you see the final packages that > need to be rebuild (in my case, kde-base/systemsettings). > > Of course, rebooting the machine before finishing all of this is not a > good idea. >
yeah, almost the same here. Removed the file first, run the la fixer then revdep- rebuilt and everything was fine.
