After the mysql update triggerd by emerge -u world, postfix doesn't work anymore. Oct 24 11:43:59 elcheffe postfix/master[1258]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/pickup: bad command startup -- throttling Oct 24 11:43:59 elcheffe postfix/master[1258]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 21400 exit status 127 elcheffe ~ # postsuper postsuper: error while loading shared libraries: libmysqlclient.so.12: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ldconfig doesn't create the link by itself, so i did it manually : elcheffe ~ # ln -s /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.14 /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.12 elcheffe ~ # postsuper elcheffe ~ # After creating the link the mailsystem works without problems. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Who said so.12 and so.14 are compatible so you can just symlink? This is most often a bad idea. Use revdep-rebuild, Portage has no support for reverse dependency resolution builtin (yet).