Re: [gentoo-user] How can I solve "emerge @preserved-rebuild" loop?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I update my server quite frequently without any problem, but
> today after running "emerge -uDN world" I got these messages:
>
> -----
> !!! existing preserved libs:
>>>> package: sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.9
>  *  - /lib64/libuuid.so
>  *      used by /bin/mount (sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
>  *      used by /bin/umount (sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
>  *      used by /sbin/blkid (sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
>  *      used by 16 other files
>  *  - /lib64/libblkid.so
>  *      used by /bin/mount (sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
>  *      used by /bin/umount (sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
>  *      used by /sbin/blkid (sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
>  *      used by 8 other files
> Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries
> -----
>
> So I did run "emerge @preserved-rebuild", but at the end
> of it I got the very same messages. How can I solve this?
>
> Jarry

I saw this on every machine I updated recently. I did

emerge -C e2fsprogs-libs

and then

emerge -DuN world
revdep-rebuild -i

HTH,
Mark