On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 02:34:41PM -0400, Jack wrote > My guess is that it isn't libffi that needs re-emerging, but things > that depend on it. I have 3.30_rc0 installd (both dev_libs and > virtual) and I have no libffi.so.6 anywhere to be found. Have you > tried revdep-rebuild? Either that, or "emerge -pc virtual/libffi" and > them emerge -1 everything it lists.
Facepalm. I did revdep-rebuild when the update first failed part way through, but not at the most recent failure. After another revdep-rebuild, Pale Moon (web browser) now starts up. The list of pending updates is down from 15 to 9. I'm now run the (hopefully) final emerge update run. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications