From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1986138650 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:32:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5DD1921C036; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E9D6E04C2 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:32:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 5957 invoked by uid 3782); 24 Jan 2013 11:32:28 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951BCFD.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.188.253]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:32:27 +0100 Received: (qmail 7211 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Jan 2013 11:25:45 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:25:45 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Infinite loop in revdep-rebuild with firefox-17.0.2 Message-ID: <20130124112544.GA7179@acm.acm> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 47a5e567-47a4-483a-9058-2ffdf4356cf9 X-Archives-Hash: 5979b8fbafb4065e881f2a0c3e0bf5e0 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).