Today's sync breaks stuff

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Today's sync breaks stuff
\ Alan McKinnon (7 May 2008)
. \ Albert Hopkins (7 May 2008)
. \ b.n. (7 May 2008)
. . \ Alan McKinnon (7 May 2008)

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Subject:	Today's sync breaks stuff
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Alan McKinnon
Date:	7 May 2008

Hi all,

Here follows a quick heads up to save someone's hair (mine's been pulled
out).

If you emerge --sync && emerge world today, make sure you do it the
right way this time:

1. read the elogs
2. revdep-rebuild
3. then and only then, reboot. Better still, exit X and log in again to
make sure it still works then only reboot.

libtool got bumped to 2.2.4, which installs libltdl.so.3 which breaks a
huge list of dependencies - much longer than I've seen in ages. In my
case my dm and wm were broken so when X starts nothing happens and I
lost the keyboard. Couldn't even get to a virtual console so had to do
the usual fight with boot single user mode, remount / rw, start lvm,
manually mount ... you get the idea

alan

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Alan McKinnon
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