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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2012 8:26 pm    Post subject: revdep-rebuild keeps rebuilding firefox,thunderbird [SOLVED] Reply with quote

I have a feeling this has come up before, but I can't
find the solution, so here is my problem.

I run revdep-rebuild and now everytime it gets to
100% and then spews out this:

Code:
[ 100% ]                 
 *   broken /usr/lib/firefox/libxpcom.so (no version information available)
 *   broken /usr/lib/firefox/plugin-container (no version information available)
 *   broken /usr/lib/thunderbird/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103}/components/libcalbasecomps.so (no version information available)
 *   broken /usr/lib/thunderbird/libxpcom.so (no version information available)
 *   broken /usr/lib/thunderbird/plugin-container (no version information available)


and then wants to rebuild firefox and thunderbird (versions 17.0.1
and 17.0-r2 respectively)

Of course, letting it rebuild them does not stop revdep-rebuild
from wanting to do it again ...

Does anyone know a fix for this?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

run
Code:
revdep-rebuild -ip
this will ignore files from previous revdep-rebuild runs which were left behind and pretend the build.

see if it reproduces. if so, try rebuilding libxpcom.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

revdep-rebuild -p -i does not solve the problem

libxpcom.so is - of course - part of firefox and thunderbird

Code:
equery belongs libxpcom.so
 * Searching for libxpcom.so ...
mail-client/thunderbird-17.0-r2 (/usr/lib64/thunderbird/libxpcom.so)
www-client/firefox-17.0.1 (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxpcom.so)


so you see the difficulty ...
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 5:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I would remove those files by hand.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 25, 2012 6:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

albright wrote:
revdep-rebuild -p -i does not solve the problem

libxpcom.so is - of course - part of firefox and thunderbird

Code:
equery belongs libxpcom.so
 * Searching for libxpcom.so ...
mail-client/thunderbird-17.0-r2 (/usr/lib64/thunderbird/libxpcom.so)
www-client/firefox-17.0.1 (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxpcom.so)


so you see the difficulty ...


the goal was to reproduce the issue without any leftovers from previous runs, not to solve this by that cmd, I had similar issue before and wanted to make sure this is linkage issue, not a garbage file issue.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

thanks all - it *was* a garbage file issue; there
were a couple of libxpcom's in ancient xulrunner
directories that were cluttering my system

things better now
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 5:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

albright wrote:
thanks all - it *was* a garbage file issue; there
were a couple of libxpcom's in ancient xulrunner
directories that were cluttering my system

things better now


Yeah, I had the same issue - ended up being I still had `xulrunner` package installed from a long time when it was a separate package. Unemerging it resolves the issue. Just figured I'd note the fix in this thread if anyone else comes across it.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the.root wrote:
Yeah, I had the same issue - ended up being I still had `xulrunner` package installed from a long time when it was a separate package. Unemerging it resolves the issue. Just figured I'd note the fix in this thread if anyone else comes across it.


I've had the same issue. Thanks a million for sharing what needed to be done!

Cheers,
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Xulrunner was long gone. Did not find any other copies of the offending .so apart from those in /usr/lib/firefox and /usr/lib/thunderbird. I end up doing "emerge -C firefox thunderbird; emerge firefox thunderbird". This broke the revdep-build loop for me on both my build machines.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 8:14 am    Post subject: Rsesolved with emerge -C net-libs/xulrunner Reply with quote

Great thread! Finally I solved this annoying problem with:

Code:
mike@München (ruby 1.8.7) ~ $ equery belongs libxpcom.so
 * Searching for libxpcom.so ...
net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.20 (/usr/lib64/xulrunner-devel-1.9.2/sdk/lib/libxpcom.so)
net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.20 (/usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.2/libxpcom.so)
www-client/firefox-19.0.2 (/usr/lib64/firefox/libxpcom.so)

and, taking into account that:
Code:
mike@München (ruby 1.8.7) ~ $ equery d net-libs/xulrunner
 * These packages depend on net-libs/xulrunner:
mike@München (ruby 1.8.7) ~ $  ---> nothing! <---

it's then safe to run:
Code:
mike@München (ruby 1.8.7) ~ # emerge -C net-libs/xulrunner
 * This action can remove important packages! In order to be safer, use
 * `emerge -pv --depclean <atom>` to check for reverse dependencies before
 * removing packages.

 net-libs/xulrunner
    selected: 1.9.2.20
   protected: none
     omitted: none

All selected packages: net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.20

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.

>>> Waiting 5 seconds before starting...
>>> (Control-C to abort)...
>>> Unmerging in:  5 4 3 2 1
>>> Unmerging (1 of 1) net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.20...

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

Now revdep-rebuild runs without problems.
Thanks all!
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 8:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

is there any way to unmerge xulrunner nowdays, as it is not in the portage any more?
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