I saw this behavior this morning when running "dispatch-conf": --- /etc/pam.d/crond 2009-11-23 20:04:48.000000000 +0100 +++ /etc/pam.d/._cfg0000_crond 2009-11-30 16:23:17.000000000 +0100 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ # The PAM configuration file for the cron daemon # # -# No PAM authentication called, auth modules not needed +auth include system-auth account required pam_access.so account include system-auth session required pam_loginuid.so >> (1 of 1) -- /etc/pam.d/crond >> q quit, h help, n next, e edit-new, z zap-new, u use-new m merge, t toggle-merge, l look-merge: belkin2 ~ # /etc/init.d/cronie restart belkin2 ~ # I clicked "u" to use new config file but, once dispatch-conf exited, I got my prompt next to " m merge, t toggle-merge, l look-merge:" instead of getting it in next line. Seems that a carriage return after dispatch-conf would be needed Thanks a lot Portage 2.1.7.9 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3200+-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests autoaddcvs ccache cvs distlocks fixpackages multilib-strict news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms sign strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org" LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/suka /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 applet avahi bash-completion berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdinstall cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups daap dbus djvu dri dts dvd dvdr dvi eds emboss encode evo exif fam fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran fuse gdbm gif glitz gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv imagemagick java jpeg kdehiddenvisibility kpathsea latex libnotify lyx lzma mad mikmod mmx mmxext modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network network-cron nls nptl nptlonly ntfs nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pango pch pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection reiserfs scanner sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs t1lib tcpd threads thunar tiff truetype unicode usb v4l2 vcd vorbis webkit x264 xattr xcb xinetd xml xmp xorg xpm xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Reproducible: Always
I can confirm this; happens here too every time.
Created attachment 218225 [details, diff] output a newline after user input Save as /tmp/newline.patch and apply as follows: patch /usr/lib/portage/bin/dispatch-conf /tmp/newline.patch
Seems to solve the problem for me. Thanks :-)
This is fixed in 2.1.8 and 2.2_rc64.
