Bug 167447 – app-admin/usermin-1.230 fails to merge (emerge crashes)

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Patrizio Bassi 2007-02-18 09:46:16 UTC]

>>> Merging app-admin/usermin-1.230 to /
--- /etc/
--- /etc/pam.d/
>>> /etc/pam.d/usermin
--- /etc/init.d/
>>> /etc/init.d/usermin
--- /etc/usermin/
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5299, in ?
    retval = emerge_main()
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 5294, in emerge_main
    myopts, myaction, myfiles, spinner)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 4761, in action_build
    retval = mergetask.merge(pkglist, favorites, mtimedb)
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2999, in merge
    prev_mtimes=ldpath_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3699, in doebuild
    vartree=vartree, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3907, in merge
    mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7768, in merge
    cleanup=cleanup, mydbapi=mydbapi, prev_mtimes=prev_mtimes)
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7364, in treewalk
    if self.mergeme(srcroot,destroot,outfile,secondhand,"",cfgfiledict,mymtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7640, in mergeme
    join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7640, in mergeme
    join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 7523, in mergeme
    mydmode = os.lstat(mydest).st_mode
OSError: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/etc/usermin/at'

Portage 2.1.2-r9 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6300  @ 1.86GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:00:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
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:  2.17.50.0.12
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.20
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/mail/dspam /opt/openjms/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/run/dspam"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -march=nocona -mtune=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="39"
LC_ALL="it_IT.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--hash-style=both"
LINGUAS="it"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
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="/mnt/Dati/Gentoo/tmp/"
PORTDIR="/mnt/Dati/Gentoo/portage/"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/myportage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="64bit 7zip X X509 Xaw3d a52 aac aalib accessibility ace acl acpi activefilter adns aiglx aio alsa amd amd64 amr amrr amuled ao aoss apache2 arj asf aspnet2 async atk audacious audiofile authfile automount bash-completion berkdb bidi binary-drivers bitmap-fonts bittorrent bootsplash browserplugin bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cgi charconv chardet chroot clamav clearcase cli client codecs corba cracklib crypt cscope css ctype cups curl cvs daemon dar64 dba dbus depth32 dga dhcp dio directfb diskio divx djbfft dlloader dmi dri dvd dvdr dvdread edl encode ethereal exif expat extraengine faac faad fam fastbuild fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac flash foreign-package fortran ftp gcj gd gdbm geometry ggi gif gimp gimpprint glibc-omitfp glut glx gnokii gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile h264 hal iconv idea idn imagemagick imap innodb ipod irda irmc isdnlog jack java java5 javamail javascript jikes jit joystick jpeg jpeg2k junit justify kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos kqemu lame lcd lcms ldap libcaca libclamav libg++ libgda libusb lirc live lm_sensors lua lzo mad mailwrapper matroska md5sum mdb mhash midi mikmod mime mmx2 mng mono mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer mpm-prefork msn msnextras musepack mysql mysqli mythtv nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-ssh ncurses neXt network ngui nls nntp no_wxgtk1 nobsh nopie nossp noxalan nptl nptlonly nsplugin nv nvidia oav odbc ogg openal opengl openssl operanom2 pam pcre pda pdf pdo pear perl php pmu png pnp postgres ppds pppd pthreads python qemu-fast qhull qt3 qt4 quicktime quotas readline reflection rrdtool rtc ruby samba scanner sdl server session sftplogging sguil slang slp smp snortsam soap sockets socks5 softmmu softquota spamassassin speex spl sqlite3 sse3 ssl ssse3 subject-rewrite svg tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wma wmf wmv wsconvert wxwindows x264 xanim xchatdccserver xchattext xcomposite xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xorg xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid xvm xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" 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" LINGUAS="it" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev vesa vga nv nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Patrizio Bassi 2007-02-18 09:48:21 UTC]

found the problem:

ls /etc/usermin -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 24 dic 17:03 /etc/usermin -> ../usr/libexec/usermin

removing it fixed the problem.

sorry for bug.