Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge trouble with firefox and thunderbird ...

[Carsten Hauck <zem42@gmx.de>]

On 03/03/24 at 04:18, Jack wrote:
>On 2024.03.03 15:23, Wol wrote:
>>On 03/03/2024 19:40, Jack wrote:
>>>On 2024.03.03 13:54, Wols Lists wrote:
>>>>On 03/03/2024 09:47, Wols Lists wrote:
>>>>>I'm getting this output from
>>>>>
>>>>>emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world
>>>>
>>>>whoops I mean "emerge --depclean"
>>>>
>>>>I'm trying to get a clean system, and don't know what exactly is
>>>>wrong, or what to try ...
>>>>
>>>>Cheers,
>>>>Wol
>>>>
>>>As the error says, you generally need to do a full update before
>>>you can depclean.
>>>
>>>What error(s) do you get when trying to update firefox or
>>>thunderbird?  What happens if you try to update @world?
>>>
>>Both firefox and thunderbird seemed to die for no obvious reason.
>>Where do I find the logs?
>>
>>But because depclean complained, I did blah-blah-with-bdeps, which
>>emerged (or tried to) 21 packages, but firefox/thunderbird still
>>bombed, and then --depclean still complained.
>>
>>So I don't know what's going on, but basically Mozilla won't emerge,
>>and I don't know why ...
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Wol
>Did the other 19 package emerge OK?  Are the mozilla progs crashing
>when running, or when emerging?  If emerging, the log is just console
>output, as indecipherable as we know it sometimes can be.  If they
>crash when running, try running from command line.
>

Some time ago on one of my machines Thunderbird and Firefox stopped to
compile with USE="clang". As they can be build with gcc I never digged
too deep into that problem but maybe it's worth a shot.

Greetings,
Carsten