After upgrading to libxml2-2.6.16 valknut couldn't read it's configuration files anymore. This is caused by a small change in the libxml api. The valknut forums have more information on this (http://dcgui.berlios.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2668) and a patch. Applying this patch fixed the problem for me. Attaching patch and modified ebuild in a second. Setting this as major, as it makes the app pretty useless. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge valknut and dclib (0.3.3 here, other versions are probably affected too) 2. emerge libxml2-2.6.16 3. start, configure, restart valknut Actual Results: valknut lost all settings Expected Results: remembered the settings Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9-m1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9-m1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.7 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Nov 8 2004, 18:55:58)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb -frename-registers" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks noauto sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X alsa ansi apm avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt dga edl emacs f77 faad fbcon flac foomaticdb fortran gnome gstreamer gtk2 imagemagick javascript jit jpeg libcaca libg++ libwww maildir md5sum mikmod mmx mmx2 mng mozdevelop mozsvg mpeg ncurses nethack network nls nntp no-old-linux no_wxgtk1 nptl nptlonly oggvorbis pam png python qemu-fast quicktime readline real rtc softmmu spell sse ssl svg tetex truetype unicode userlocales x86 xml2 xv zlib"
Created attachment 45909 [details, diff] patch to dclib Fix the handling of return codes from libxml2
Created attachment 45910 [details, diff] patch to the ebuild to apply the patch
Comment on attachment 45910 [details, diff] patch to the ebuild to apply the patch (sorry, got it reversed, but you get the idea :)
fixed in portage in dclib-0.3.3-r1; thanks for your submission :)
the new verion (r1) doesn't help either
It did help here. What problems do you have? Although it seems unlikely this will help (looks like the linking is dynamic) did you try remerging valknut after updating dclib?
it works now, but have no ideea why, anyway all's well when it ends well :P
