From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MnSZC-0000kz-5L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:35:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BBF4E0878; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-1.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D07D0E0878 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:35:08 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KQ000MWV52KWZF0@mta-1.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:35:08 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,388,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="25900103" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:35:08 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id n8F7Z8lc024877 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:35:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 64ABC690; Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:35:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:35:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: X-Archives-Salt: f104d3b3-bfd8-4236-88b4-abca38e25d4f X-Archives-Hash: d99b6e19ffe42d6667ec32a72c2bab60 Hi, as I have just bitten by it, have a look at http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285004 before upgrading to x11-libs/libxcb-1.4 (1.4.-r1) since this breaks any X11-application (including your browser to look at the URL above) Such an update should be DOUBLY MASKED !!! And the messages coming with libxcb just don't help. revdep-rebuild doesn't help either. And one cannot remerge the broken packages either, since there configure bails out. Oh dear, Gentoo ! Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany