Posts Tagged ‘dependencies’

“Couldn’t load XPCOM” after Firefox upgrade

Monday, July 27th, 2009

After Mozilla Firefox 3.5(.1) was finally unmasked in Portage, I upgraded from 3.0. Unfortunately, after the update, Firefox would not start anymore and when started from a terminal, it would leave me with a cryptic “Couldn’t load XPCOM.”.
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This week’s blockers: perl-core/Compress-Zlib and perl-core/IO-Compress-Zlib

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Less than a week after my previous post on blockers caused by poppler, perl-core/Compress-Zlib and perl-core/IO-Compress-Zlib pop up as blockers in my emerge -uDN world.
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emerge -u world causes poppler blocks

Monday, June 15th, 2009

When updating world, as we should all do every now and then, yesterday I was confronted with a number of different blocks relating to poppler. Usually I find it easiest to unmerge a blocking package by hand and see if the dependency conflict resolves itself. This time that wasn’t quite what I needed.
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