From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FqUYW-0004T7-Bz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:33:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k5ECTlLZ030442; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:29:47 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5ECOIfk029558 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:24:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ACCB64F6B for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:24:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 07624-10 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.192]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E6C464F65 for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 40so112780nzk for ; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:24:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=L6dsQiF0Ly7pvm0Fzwyvg1FP4fzoHHkF9w7WIoFD9eVUtCuLRtvDZBWJNRvq8IkxEuChEz7XJisVQuaKNBhkrrm6iVUayzJD/hi9TC8Pqi3J1SB+hHAomdP6KZZ03PFvx/PTtpwIRZxrEFz7imflaVU6Unb3mScHXR5buW/D9Fk= Received: by 10.64.3.9 with SMTP id 9mr406111qbc; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.124.3 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Jun 2006 05:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <60fece8f0606140524n2dfe5d72qa1965fd4314c00d0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 14:24:15 +0200 From: Caster To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: broken libraries but library-linking is consistent ;-) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_86348_31764588.1150287855218" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.679 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.124, BAYES_00=-2.599, HTML_00_10=0.795, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001] X-Spam-Score: -1.679 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: a511a208-fe5a-40ee-80a3-0a90e86d6c41 X-Archives-Hash: 656ebbb6a34dc346c387c6dfe09ef82d ------=_Part_86348_31764588.1150287855218 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > according to revdep-rebuild, quite a few libraries on my system are broken. > But at the end of revdep-rebuild, it tells me, my system was consistent. This means the broken libraries don't belong to any package. Something touched/altered them (probably fix libtool script when updating gcc) so they had different mtime/md5sum than what was recorded in the package db. Such altered files are not unmerged. It's quite safe to delete them. I suppose you updated kde 3.4 to 3.5 and unmerged the old 3.4... as the kde configuration howto says, you can remove whole /usr/kde/3.4 dir (but look into there first and use common sense :) For that avifile stuff, I have no idea which package it came from, but probably you can remove it too (or is it something installed not from portage?) > I think some libraries are really broken, because the sound of my vlc > player stutters sometimes lately. I don't suppose it could have this effect. Broken linking usually means stuff won't run at all :) Caster ------=_Part_86348_31764588.1150287855218 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline > according to revdep-rebuild, quite a few libraries on my system are broken.
> But at the end of revdep-rebuild, it tells me, my system was consistent.

This means the broken libraries don't belong to any package. Something touched/altered them (probably fix libtool script when updating gcc) so they had different mtime/md5sum than what was recorded in the package db. Such altered files are not unmerged. It's quite safe to delete them. I suppose you updated kde 3.4 to 3.5 and unmerged the old 3.4... as the kde configuration howto says, you can remove whole /usr/kde/3.4 dir (but look into there first and use common sense :) For that avifile stuff, I have no idea which package it came from, but probably you can remove it too (or is it something installed not from portage?)

> I think some libraries are really broken, because the sound of my vlc
> player stutters sometimes lately.

I don't suppose it could have this effect. Broken linking usually means stuff won't run at all :)

Caster
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