The hylafax ebuild creates a FIFO (/var/spool/fax/FIFO) and several empty directories (/var/spool/fax/{tmp,recv,sendq}). When an old hylafax instance is being unmerged after a update or remerge these files get deleted (although the new instance requieres them). I think the ebuild is missing some keepdir statements. (See the output of my emerge on above url for details) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge hylafax (it works perfectly after first merge) 2. emerge hylafax (now it is broken due to missing FIFO and dirs) Actual Results: Hylafax stopped sending and receiving my faxes; some received faxes got lost. Expected Results: It should work as before the remerge Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.22) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 distcc 2.11.2 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -m3dnow -mmmx -msse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -m3dnow -mmmx -msse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" 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="-3dfx 3dnow aalib -acl acpi -afs alsa -apache2 -apm arts -atlas avi -berkdb -bonobo -canna cdr -cjk crypt -cscope cups -curl -debug -dedicated -dga -directfb -doc dvb dvd -emacs -emacs-w3 encode esd -ethereal -ev6 -evo -fastcgi fbcon -firebird -flash foomaticdb -freetds -freewnn -gb -gd gdbm -ggi gif gnome gphoto2 -gpm -gps -gstreamer gtk gtk2 -gtkhtml -guile -icc -icc-pgo imap imlib -innodb -informix -ipv6 -jack java -jikes -joystick jpeg -junit kde -kerberos -krb4 -ladcca -lcms ldap -leim -libg++ -libgda -libwww lirc mad maildir -matrox -mbox -mcal -mikmod -memlimit mmx motif mozilla mpeg -mpi -mule -mysql nas ncurses -nhc98 nls nocardbus nocd -oci8 -odbc oggvorbis opengl oss pam -pcmcia -pda ppds -pdflib -perl -plotutils png -pnp -postgres -bindist -prelude python qt -quicktime radeon readline -ruby samba -sasl -scanner sdl slang -slp -snmp -socks5 spell sse ssl -svga -tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype -trusted usb videos -voodoo3 -wavelan -wmf -wxwindows X Xaw3d xface xinerama -xosd xml xml2 xmms xv -zeo zlib x86"
The -r1 ebuild should take care of it.
