This is a somewhat tricky bug to track down, and I'm still not entirely certain what causes it. However, I *think* it happens when a package with a shared library is upgraded using the new-ish feature of portage that keeps those libraries around so you can rebuild dependent packages before removing the library. That said, I most recently had the problem with app-text/poppler, and managed to catch some evidence of the actual bug this time. I am happy to help track this down further, however I will be out of town for a week starting this Friday. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade app-text/poppler to version 0.14.1 from a version using an earlier soname 2. Attempt to run revdep-rebuild on the old libraries 3. Check the files list for poppler Actual Results: Revdep-rebuild fails on all or most packages, and poppler owns files in /var/tmp/portage. Expected Results: Revdep-rebuild should finish with no errors, and poppler should not own any files in /var/tmp/portage. Re-emerging poppler will fix the problem (you may have to remove the old libraries before this works; you can check by running equery belongs /var/tmp/portage). Once you do, the revdep-rebuild will finish normally. Before re-emerging poppler, I ran these commands to confirm the problem: $ equery belongs libpoppler.so libpoppler-glib.so libpoppler-qt4.so [ Searching for file(s) libpoppler.so,libpoppler-glib.so,libpoppler-qt4.so in *... ] app-text/poppler-0.14.1 (/var/tmp/portage/app-text/poppler-0.14.1/work/poppler-0.14.1_build/(update)/lib/libpoppler-glib.so -> libpoppler-glib.so.5) app-text/poppler-0.14.1 (/var/tmp/portage/app-text/poppler-0.14.1/work/poppler-0.14.1_build/(update)/lib/libpoppler.so -> libpoppler.so.6) app-text/poppler-0.14.1 (/var/tmp/portage/app-text/poppler-0.14.1/work/poppler-0.14.1_build/(update)/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so -> libpoppler-qt4.so.3) $ equery belongs /var/tmp/portage [ Searching for file(s) /var/tmp/portage in *... ] app-text/poppler-0.14.1 (/var/tmp/portage) $ After re-emerging poppler, the same commands yielded the proper results: $ equery belongs libpoppler.so libpoppler-glib.so libpoppler-qt4.so [ Searching for file(s) libpoppler.so,libpoppler-glib.so,libpoppler-qt4.so in *... ] app-text/poppler-0.14.1 (/usr/lib/libpoppler-qt4.so -> libpoppler-qt4.so.3) app-text/poppler-0.14.1 (/usr/lib/libpoppler-glib.so -> libpoppler-glib.so.5) app-text/poppler-0.14.1 (/usr/lib/libpoppler.so -> libpoppler.so.6) $ equery belongs /var/tmp/portage [ Searching for file(s) /var/tmp/portage in *... ] $ emerge --info: $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1-iqgryn i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-iqgryn-i686-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_4400+-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 10:00:18 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1 AdobeFlash-10.1" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/hddtemp/hddtemp.db" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests collision-protect distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en_US en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/custom" SYNC="rsync://iqgryn-server.homelinux.net/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X a52 aac acct acl acpi aim akode alsa animgif ao arts audiofile avahi bash-completion bluetooth boost branding bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdaudio cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr chardet chroot cjk cleartype cli consolekit contrib cracklib crypt cscope css cuda cups curl cvs cxx d dbus detex device-mapper dga disk-partition diskio divx doc dri dvd dvdr elf emboss encode exif expat fam fastcgi fat ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fmod font-server fontforge foomaticdb fortran fts3 gcj gd gdbm gif gimp git 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startup-notification stream stroke subtitles subversion svg symlink sysfs syslog sysvipc tcpd tex4ht theora threads thunderbird tiff toolbar transcode truetype udev unicode usb userlocales utempter vcd vdpau videos vidix vim-syntax vim-with-x vnc voice vorbis winbind wma wmf wmp x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xetex xine xinerama xml xorg xpm xprint xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse joystick" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_US en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS $
Probably some preserve_old_lib bug. Can anyone else confirm?
