Bugzilla Bug 74279

After upgrading to libxml2-2.6.16 valknut couldn't read it's configuration
files anymore. This is caused by a small change in the libxml api. The valknut
forums have more information on this
(http://dcgui.berlios.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2668) and a patch. Applying this
patch fixed the problem for me. Attaching patch and modified ebuild in a
second.

Setting this as major, as it makes the app pretty useless.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge valknut and dclib (0.3.3 here, other versions are probably affected
too)
2. emerge libxml2-2.6.16
3. start, configure, restart valknut

Actual Results:  
valknut lost all settings

Expected Results:  
remembered the settings

Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0,
 2.6.9-gentoo-r9-m1 i686)   
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9-m1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov  8 2004, 18:55:58)]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb
-frename-registers"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb
-frename-registers"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks noauto sandbox sfperms
userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/
http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowex X alsa ansi apm avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt dga edl emacs f77
faad fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gnome gstreamer gtk2 imagemagick javascript
jit jpeg libcaca libg++ libwww maildir md5sum mikmod mmx mmx2 mng mozdevelop
mozsvg mpeg ncurses nethack network nls nntp no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 nptl
nptlonly oggvorbis pam png python qemu-fast quicktime readline real rtc softmmu
spell sse ssl svg tetex truetype unicode userlocales x86 xml2 xv zlib"

Created an attachment (id=45909) [edit]
patch to dclib

Fix the handling of return codes from libxml2

Created an attachment (id=45910) [edit]
patch to the ebuild to apply the patch

(From update of attachment 45910 [edit])
(sorry, got it reversed, but you get the idea :)

fixed in portage in dclib-0.3.3-r1; thanks for your submission :)

the new verion (r1) doesn't help either

It did help here. What problems do you have? Although it seems unlikely this
will help (looks like the linking is dynamic) did you try remerging valknut
after updating dclib?

it works now, but have no ideea why, anyway all's well when it ends well  :P