Bug 3471

Summary:	emerge clean removed libpng.so.3 which is needed by kdm
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Danny <danny.hallwood>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Danny 2002-06-07 04:48:58 UTC

Hi all, 
after running emerge clean the file libpng.so.3 is delted. This stops kdm from
starting, see exerpt from /var/log/kdm.log
/usr/kde/3/bin/kdm_greet: error while loading shared libraries: libpng.so.3:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

To fix I made a symbolic link to libpng.so.3.1.2.3

etc # ls -al /usr/lib/libpng.so.3
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           17 Jun  7 00:39 /usr/lib/libpng.so.3 ->
libpng.so.3.1.2.3

Im currently running kde 3.01. Previously I ran kde 3.0

Regards
Danny Hallwood

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-06-07 10:00:27 UTC

it's a known issue with portage rather than libpng.  To make it better, just
remerge libpng :)