April 06, 2005

A bug is fix0red

This didn't have any effect on the front end that I could see (except for when the site was off because I rebooted and forgot to reset the HTTP forwarding), but there was a weird problem that was causing HongPong.com's all-important Gentoo Linux server box to emit ugly messages whenever it did something called "caching service dependencies, like so:

Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
Caching service dependencies...
/var/lib/init.d/depcache: line 16: overwritten!!: command not found

This has been a pain for quite a while but I did some looking around in the Gentoo linux forums and their bugzilla bugtracker. Read what happened here (the forums weren't terribly useful) or ignore this message. Hopefully some googler in the future will find the info helpful. The trick was to empty out a config directory, /etc/conf.d/, and then run 'emerge baselayout' to replace the config files. It took quite a while to determine this. A special thanks to Borja Pacheco on Gentoo Bugzilla entry #74404 for his useful solution to a similar problem.

Posted by HongPong at April 6, 2005 03:19 PM
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