From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-144725-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A7DC13865C for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C996921C080; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:38:53 +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 0E31A21C00B for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:38:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 35316 invoked by uid 3782); 24 Jan 2013 17:38:49 -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 18:38:47 +0100 Received: (qmail 20672 invoked by uid 1000); 24 Jan 2013 17:32:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:32:06 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Infinite loop in revdep-rebuild with firefox-17.0.2 Message-ID: <20130124173205.GA20483@acm.acm> References: <20130124112544.GA7179@acm.acm> <20130124125116.GA20491@filip.loria.fr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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 In-Reply-To: <20130124125116.GA20491@filip.loria.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: f4261561-4ad1-4638-895e-e888cf23346d X-Archives-Hash: f3f0765ff52483bf646a63c232e3c45b Hi, Jean-Christophe. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 01:51:16PM +0100, Jean-Christophe Bach wrote: > * Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.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, Yes, indeed it did, thanks. Although I had xulrunner hanging around, there was no longer an ebuild for it. > JC -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).