Today, I ran an `emerge -uDN world`, and mysql kept failing on the ./configure step because it couldn't properly execute `ps`.
For as long as I can remember, my gentoo box has been unable to run `ps`. Every time I did, I'd get a "No such file or directory" error regarding /lib64/libproc-3.2.6.so
Upon further investigation, I found that an `ls /lib64/libproc*` showed two files:
/lib64/libproc-3.2.7.so /lib64/libproc.so
...so, `ps` was trying to access 3.2.6, and I had 3.2.7. Obviously something was out of whack--probably an environment variable. I tried creating a /lib64/libproc-3.2.6.so symlink back to the /lib64/libproc-3.2.7, but `ps` only failed with a different error.
So, naturally, I figured I would simply unmerge and re-emerge the package. An `emerge --search libproc` reveled only one package: dev-libs/libproccpuinfo. After unmerging and re-emerging this package a dozen times, I fell back to google. Turns out that the REAL package for the libproc.so file is sys-process/procps. When I got the...
!!! 'sys-process/procps' is part of your system profile. !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
>>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting...
...message, I was sure that I'd break my system, but I continued, finished the unmerge, re-emerged the package, crossed my fingers, and
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