I ran updates on my machine about 2 days ago, and it upgraded from aterm-1.0.1-r1 to aterm-1.0.1-r2. The last time that portage touched aterm was back in april, when I rebuilt my machine from scratch. I just rebooted my machine today, so all of my terms were closed out and upon rebooting wouldn't re-open. When I looked into it, there doesn't seem to be any aterm in /usr/bin. I tried uninstalling, reinstalling, masking 'r2', and downgrading to 'r1' - all with no success. Every time I ran 'which', it indicated that it couldn't find the executable, so I would then run 'equery files aterm' and this was always the output: [code] /usr /usr/bin /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/ChangeLog.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/FAQ.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/README.Unix98PTY.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/README.greek.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/README.menu.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/README.thai.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/README.xvt.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/menu /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/menu/example.menu.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/menu/jedmenu.sl.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/menu/menu.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/menu/rxvt.menu.bz2 /usr/share/doc/aterm-1.0.1-r1/menu/terminal.menu.bz2 /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man1 /usr/share/man/man1/aterm.1.bz2 [/code] I tried re-syncing portage, removing the distfile and the binpkg, and re-emerging. Finally, I tried re-emerging with --ignore-default-opts (should have thought of this sooner). Apparently several errors appeared during build and install (yet portage didn't report or bail out on it) all to the tune of this: [code] /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.5.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng14 collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [aterm] Error 1 [/code] I checked the log for the upgrade/install of libpng (1.5) during the same update, and sure enough, there's a message: [quote] WARN: postinst Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system. In order to avoid breaking packages that depend on these old libs, the libraries are not being removed. You need to run revdep-rebuild in order to remove these old dependencies. If you do not have this helper program, simply emerge the 'gentoolkit' package. # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14' Once you've finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to delete the old libraries. Here is a copy & paste for the lazy: # rm '/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14' [/quote] So, the issues _appear_ to be as follows: - Aterm isn't setup to build with anything but libpng-1.4, and - The aterm ebuild doesn't seem to handle errors. Reproducible: Didn't try Here's my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.2.0-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.0-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P7350_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 03:15:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.6 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.6 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.7 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" 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After doing some digging, I came to find the following: 1. Libpng's site says this: "Apps that compiled against libpng 1.4 without warnings about deprecated features should happily compile against 1.5, too." 2. Extracting the aterm source and grep-ing for 'lpng14' showed no results, so it was being pulled in from somewhere else during configuration. 3. After running ./configure on the source, LIB_AFTERIMAGE gets set in several places and contains "lpng14", so it appears to be an issue with the install of afterstep still using libpng 1.4. 4. Dropping "x11-wm/afterstep ~<arch>" into /etc/portage/package.keywords, upgrading afterstep, and reinstalling aterm fixed this problem. (Hurray!) With that aside, there's still the issue of aterm not failing during the compilation phase.
Almost forgot to mention: the version of afterstep that I was using was 2.2.9, and by adding the keywords and upgrading, I'm now at 2.2.11. The issue should be replicable if you set the 'png' USE flag, emerge libpng >=1.5, afterstep =2.2.9, and then aterm.
The afterstep rebuild should have been triggered by the revdep-rebuild --library /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 which is suggested at the libpng-1.5 emerge. Did you remove /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 ? I've some evidence that even if you run this this revdep-rebuild, it doesn't hit. I think the right command should have been "revdep-rebuild --library libpng14.so.14". Anyway, the link problem "-lpng14 missing" only occurs w/ an broken afterstep installation. Please take a look at "revdep-rebuild --ignore -- --ask" from time to time.
Yeah, I'm surprised that I overlooked putting that in the comments... I definitely ran revdep-rebuild several times. I can verify - it did not rebuild afterstep. That --ignore option is pretty handy. I've been doing it the old fashioned 'rm -rf' way for a while, it's good to know there's a cleaner way to go about it now! Thanks!
