Bug 167388 – sys-apps/module-init-tools fails to update with collision-protect set

• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Robert Bridge 2007-02-17 21:00:41 UTC]

module-init-tools fails to update with collision-protect set, when running 'emerge -uDN world'. I have re-synced, and repeated the 'emerge -uDN world', with the same result.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge -uDN world
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge fails with 

* checking 59 files for package collisions
existing file /sbin/update-modules is not owned by this package



Expected Results:  
The package to emerge successfully.

Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/server, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.16.28-xen-r2 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.16.28-xen-r2 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 19:30:02 +0000
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mno-tls-direct-seg-refs"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
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="apache2 berkdb cli cracklib crypt cups dlloader dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv imap ipv6 isdnlog libww maildir mailwrapper midi mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pam pcre perl pop ppds pppd python readline reflection samba sasl session snmp spl sse ssl tcpd truetype unicode vhosts x86 xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Robert Bridge 2007-02-17 21:02:06 UTC]

Created attachment 110498 [details]
The output from portage when attempting the update.

This contains all the output from portage when attempting to update, the error message is at the end.

[Comment 2 Robert Bridge 2007-02-17 21:02:42 UTC]

Created attachment 110500 [details]
make.conf

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2007-02-17 21:11:30 UTC]

> None of the installed packages claim the above file(s).

Can't fix collisions with orphaned files; just delete it and re-emerge module-init-tools