Bug 83985 – revdep-rebuild missed libsdl when DirectFB was upgraded.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description MAL 2005-03-03 11:00:35 UTC]

I just updated DirectFB from 0.9.20 to 0.9.21, then ran revdep-rebuild.

It updated transcode, but that was all.

mplayer and mpeg2dec from libmpeg2 wouldn't run, stating that they couldn't find libdirectfb-0.9.so.20.  It turned out that libsdl was still linked to the old DirectFB, and in turn mplayer and mpeg2dec were linked to libsdl.

revdep-rebuild completely missed them, instead stating that my system was fine.
I first rebuilt mplayer and libmpeg2 manually, but they still reported couldn't find libdirectfb-0.9.so.20.  After rebuilding libsdl manually, mplayer and mpeg2dec worked again. Without any further rebuilds.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Mark Clegg 2005-03-06 03:14:27 UTC]

Don't know if it's related, but I've just had an issue where revdep-rebuild was reporting... 

broken /usr/lib/libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.6 (requires libdirectfb-0.9.so.20)

...but wouldn't fix it.

It appeared that libSDL-1.2.so.0.0.6 wasn't owned by any package, so I'm assuming it's a left over from an old version that hadn't been cleaned properly during a previous libSDL upgrade. 

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-04-20 18:39:47 UTC]

*** Bug 89781 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 3 b.eggleston 2005-04-23 22:52:21 UTC]

I had a very similar experience with an upgrade of DirectFB from 0.9.21 to 0.9.22, ran revdep-rebuild and it did not detect that libSDL was still linked to the 0.9.21 lib

[Comment 4 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2005-04-24 15:15:46 UTC]

I have been trying to reproduce this and I have had no success as revdep-rebuild has been consisently finding the broken dynamic links. What version of gentoolkit do you have installed?

[Comment 5 MAL 2005-04-25 04:39:15 UTC]

Latest stable:

[ebuild   R   ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0  0 kB

[Comment 6 yuk 2005-05-17 06:50:22 UTC]

Created attachment 59118 [details]
Removed COMPLETE_LD_LIBRARY_PATH - Added DIR_MASK - some fix for nagios and cgi

revdep-rebuild runs ldd with an LD_LIBRARY_PATH expanded with all dir that
contains at least an executable or a .so (COMPLETE_LD_LIBRARY_PATH). This helps

ldd to find dependencies but it's not the real environment used when a program
runs. It's better using the real LD_LIBRARY_PATH to search dependencies and
exclude some particular packages like OpenOffice, Acrobat 7 and others. I
dropped the expansion of the LD_LIBRARY_PATH and I added a variable for
directory exclusion. Also devdep-rebuild didn't search for .cgi (only
executables and *.so*) and in /usr/nagios/*.

This works great for me!

[Comment 7 Paul Varner (RETIRED) 2005-06-04 18:15:35 UTC]

I have been unable to reproduce this on three different systems. Reopen if you
have a system with the issue and are willing to help debug the problem.

[Comment 8 SpanKY 2005-11-25 19:27:46 UTC]

*** Bug 113602 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***