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

[Jack <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>]

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.