Reproducible: Yes. Following instruction in Migrating to Modular X howto, upgrading from xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 to xorg-server-1.1.0-r1 and xorg-x11-7.1. During emerge of depended-upon package x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.8 I get the following error: * Directory /usr/lib/X11/xkb should be * manually deleted/renamed/relocated before installing! !!! ERROR: x11-misc/xkeyboard-config-0.8 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1555: Called dyn_setup ebuild.sh, line 668: Called pkg_setup xkeyboard-config-0.8.ebuild, line 24: Called die !!! Manually remove /usr/lib/X11/xkb !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if relevant. Note: This (as far as I can tell) is not the xml-parser error of days of yore. Doing as the error message suggested (removing /usr/lib/X11/xkb and re-emerging) worked, but (oddly or un-oddly) the build order then included some new files before the just terminated xkeyboard-config package (I haven't tried to reproduce this portion, i.e., the new emerge order). By worked, I mean that xkeyboard-config emerged. After posting this on the forums, another user using an X86 machine reported the same error (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=3421502). My emerge --info: Portage 2.1-r1 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.0/2.4, gcc-20050130, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.4.32-sparc-r4 sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.32-sparc-r4 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.26-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc ~sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="sparc X apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups dba dlloader dri eds encode esd ethereal fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gd gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib isdnlog jpeg libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php png pppd python qt qt3 readline reflection sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xml xmms xorg xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_ati video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY View the forum post listed above to see the emerge --info of the other guy, or if you don't wish to do that email me and I'll post his too.
Happened to me also on both my desktop and laptop.
Yeah, this should probably be added to the docs. Thanks for pointing it out.
This happened to me also on AMD64. Following directions "Directory /usr/lib64/X11/xkb should be manually deleted/renamed/relocated before installing!" allowed the installation to finish.
*** Bug 139342 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Added to the doc, thanks!
*** Bug 139389 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
