Mick wrote:
On Sunday 04 July 2010 17:24:52 Dale wrote:
Run lafilefixer --justfixit and then revdep-rebuild -v -i. You may have to
rinse and repeat more than once.
I was getting symptoms like yours only to discover that I had many more
packages that needed remerging.
YMMV
Everything
Philip Webb wrote:
100704 Dale wrote:
My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start.
Sort of have to have one to get to the other.
I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either.
That's why I stopped using a GUI login many years ago (smile).
I login to a raw terminal
On Sunday 04 July 2010 17:24:52 Dale wrote:
> Philip Webb wrote:
> > 100630 Willie Wong wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >>> unmerge libpng
> >>> delete everything left with libpng in it's name
> >>> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
> >
100704 Dale wrote:
> My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start.
> Sort of have to have one to get to the other.
> I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either.
That's why I stopped using a GUI login many years ago (smile).
I login to a raw terminal, then 'startx': avoids lo
Philip Webb wrote:
100630 Willie Wong wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
unmerge libpng
delete everything left with libpng in it's name
emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
same with revdep-rebuild
re-emerge libpng and let portage pick
100630 Willie Wong wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> unmerge libpng
>> delete everything left with libpng in it's name
>> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
>> same with revdep-rebuild
>> re-emerge libpng and let portage pick the version to
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 01 July 2010 00:15:34 Mick wrote:
I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back
then:
unmerge libpng
delete everything left with libpng in it's name
emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
same with revdep-rebuild
re-e
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then:
>
> unmerge libpng
> delete everything left with libpng in it's name
> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
> same with revdep-rebuild
> re-
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 22:30:27 Bill Longman wrote:
> If you're really paranoid, you'll recompile all libpng's
> dependencies
No, that's not Really paranoid; Really paranoid is embarking on an
emerge -e world. And a lot of people have done just that.
--
Rgds
Peter. Linux Counte
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:52:13 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> This is called the "throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks"
> method of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me.
I posted a script/one-liner I used to fix this at the time it hit stable,
which fixed the pr
On Thursday 01 July 2010 00:15:34 Mick wrote:
> > I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back
> >
> > then:
> >
> >
> > unmerge libpng
> > delete everything left with libpng in it's name
> > emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
> > same with revdep-rebuil
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 22:52:13 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:17:28 Mick wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never
> > > got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now.
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 23:17:28 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never
> > got fixed properly and is hitting stable users now.
> >
> > Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documen
On 06/30/2010 02:17 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got
>> fixed properly and is hitting stable users now.
>>
>> Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs t
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got
> fixed properly and is hitting stable users now.
>
> Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be
> done:
>
> http://blog.flameeyes.e
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 02:16:36 Willie Wong wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
He has this uncanny ability of almost
always being correct on technical toolchain matters
I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flamee
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 02:16:36 Willie Wong wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > He has this uncanny ability of almost
> > always being correct on technical toolchain matters
>
> I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking
> about. I
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> He has this uncanny ability of almost
> always being correct on technical toolchain matters
I disagree with the uncanny part. This is flameeyes we are talking
about. It's like saying "Joerg Schilling has this uncanny ability
of almo
Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got
fixed properly and is hitting stable users now.
Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be
done:
http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update
If you are a stable user,
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