Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 12:02 PM, James Ausmus <james.ausmus@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> >> > a "ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3*"?
>> >> >
>> >> lightning ~ # ls /usr/lib/nss/libnss3*
>> >> /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so  /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.11
>> >>  /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.12
>> >> lightning ~ #
>> >
>> > Aha! And which of the versioned .so's is libnss3.so linking to?
>> >
>> lightning ~ # ls -l /usr/lib/nss/libnss3*
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      13 2009-01-08 10:00
>> /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so -> libnss3.so.12
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  560376 2008-11-25 17:02 /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.11
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1337104 2009-01-08 10:00 /usr/lib/nss/libnss3.so.12
>> lightning ~ #
>
> Hmm - very odd - seems that the evolution build is specifically grabbing the
> libnss3.so.11 version... Maybe try running "ldconfig"? If that doesn't work,
> maybe try deleting (or renaming, if you're paranoid ;) ) libnss3.so.11 (and
> all other .so.11's that you find in /usr/lib/nss).
> Anyone else have any better ideas?
> -James
>

Do I just run ldconfig or are there options/paths I have to give it.
Should I run ldconfig -p and post anything back or is it safe to run.
It looks like /etc/ls.so.conf is a list of libraries.

Would I kill the machine with an emerge -C nss and then emerge it again?

Thanks much,
Mark