Following a world upgrade, some config files in /etc/ were replaced by symbolic links to themselves. This includes /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/yp.conf, /etc/ntp.conf and /etc/net.eth0. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge -uav world dispatch-conf reboot Actual Results: Above files were replaced by symlinks to themselves, rendering them useless. Expected Results: Update changed config files as normal.
missing helpful info here ... no emerge info /etc/net.eth0 should not exist what version of baselayout if you sync and re-emerge baselayout does it work do you use dispatch-conf
1) emerge info $ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /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/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_GB.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d aalib acl acpi acpi4linux alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid auctex avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cairo cdr cjk crypt cups curl dga doc dv dvd dvdr eds emacs emacs-w3 emboss encode evo faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imap imlib immqt-bc java javascript jpeg junit kde kdeenablefinal ldap leim libcaca libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mdb mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn mule mysql mysqli nas ncurses neXt network nfs nls nptl nvidia ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl plotutils png ppds python qt quicktime readline real samba sasl scanner sdl slang slp socks5 sox spell sse sse2 ssl stroke subtitles subversion svg svga svgz tcltk tcpd tetex theora tidy tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vorbis webdav wifi win32codecs winbind wmf xchattext xface xine xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xpm xslt xv xvid xvmc yahoo yaz zeroconf zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS 2) /etc/net.eth0 was a typo. Should have been /etc/init.d/net.eth0, which should of course be a symlink to net.lo, not to itself. 3) $ qpkg -I -v baselayout sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.13 * 4) As stated in steps to reproduce, I do. I re-emerged baselayout and did dispatch-conf but this did not solve the problem. I manually resolved it by searching for files that were symlinks to themselves and restored them to sane values. (I have two other similar systems running gentoo and copied over files. There were no backups for any of the mangled ones in /etc/config-archive/. It is a strange bug which did not occur in my other two gentoo systems.
