On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 18:00 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Here follows a quick heads up to save someone's hair (mine's been pulled > out). > > If you emerge --sync && emerge world today, make sure you do it the > right way this time: > > 1. read the elogs > 2. revdep-rebuild > 3. then and only then, reboot. Better still, exit X and log in again to > make sure it still works then only reboot. > > libtool got bumped to 2.2.4, which installs libltdl.so.3 which breaks a > huge list of dependencies - much longer than I've seen in ages. In my > case my dm and wm were broken so when X starts nothing happens and I > lost the keyboard. Couldn't even get to a virtual console so had to do > the usual fight with boot single user mode, remount / rw, start lvm, > manually mount ... you get the idea
Actually the issue with libtool 2.2 has been happening for a while (at least a couple of months). See bug #212763. What happened is I think the devs thought they solved all the underlying issues with 2.2 and unmasked it. But there are still issues. It's easy to fix though. Just downgrade libtool to 1.x and revdep-rebuild. But revdep-rebuild should have at least fixed most of the broken deps and/or failed. At least that's what happened to me. I did an update, ran revdep-rebuild and when that started failing on packages I knew it was time to go back to libtool 1.x. But they've fixed a few issues yesterday and, for example, I'm currently running 2.2 without any problems. -a -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
