After weekly `emerge --update --deep world`, including the x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r7 (from -r6) ... phoenix ~ # dispatch-conf dispatch-conf: Error copying /usr/lib/X11/xkb/._cfg0000_xkbcomp to /etc/config-archive/usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp.dist.new: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/X11/xkb/._cfg0000_xkbcomp'; fatal dispatch-conf: Error renaming /usr/lib/X11/xkb/._cfg0000_xkbcomp to /usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/X11/xkb/._cfg0000_xkbcomp'; fatal Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 317, in ? d.grind (portage.settings ['CONFIG_PROTECT']) File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 148, in grind confs = filter (f, confs) File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 139, in f self.post_process(conf['current']) File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 243, in post_process dispatch_conf.file_archive_post_process(archive) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/dispatch_conf.py", line 162, in file_archive_post_process os.rename(archive + '.dist.new', archive + '.dist') OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory jsled@phoenix [~]$ emerge --info Portage 2203-svn (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 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 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r3, 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/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/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/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/portage-overlay/latexer/overlays/misc /usr/local/portage-overlay/latexer/overlays/mono" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X aac aalib alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cdr cli crypt cscope cups curl dbus dga directfb doc dri dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode esd ethereal evo exif expat faad fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber jack java joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit lcms ldap libg++ libwww lua mad maildir matrox mbox mikmod ming mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pcre pdflib perl php plotutil png powermate pppd python qt quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session slang speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis win32codecs wmf xinerama xml xml2 xmms xorg xosd xv xvid yahoo zlib video_cards_matrox userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Re-running dispatch-conf immediately after encountering this seems to work fine; I'm taken to a different file that needed updating, with no evidence or mention of the missing `/usr/lib/X11/xkb/._cfg0000_xkbcomp`. Also, the directory `/usr/lib/X11/xkb/` does exist, and has files, but does not contain the file "._cfg0000_xkbcomp" ... or, in fact, any dot-files.
This seems to be fixed in 2.1 and soon dispatch-conf will be split into a separate package so that it won't be bound to the version of portage that you're using.
(In reply to comment #2) > This seems to be fixed in 2.1 Closing then; reopen if you still have issues with that.
