Bug 74279 – valknut / dclib broken by recent libxml2 upgrade

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Marien Zwart (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 06:55:20 UTC]

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)   
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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"

[Comment 1 Marien Zwart (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 06:56:14 UTC]

Created attachment 45909 [details, diff]
patch to dclib

Fix the handling of return codes from libxml2

[Comment 2 Marien Zwart (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 06:58:05 UTC]

Created attachment 45910 [details, diff]
patch to the ebuild to apply the patch

[Comment 3 Marien Zwart (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 06:59:22 UTC]

Comment on attachment 45910 [details, diff]
patch to the ebuild to apply the patch

(sorry, got it reversed, but you get the idea :)

[Comment 4 Jon Hood (RETIRED) 2004-12-13 13:59:43 UTC]

fixed in portage in dclib-0.3.3-r1; thanks for your submission :)

[Comment 5 Teutz 2004-12-15 08:20:46 UTC]

the new verion (r1) doesn't help either

[Comment 6 Marien Zwart (RETIRED) 2004-12-15 08:38:02 UTC]

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?

[Comment 7 Teutz 2004-12-21 03:47:11 UTC]

it works now, but have no ideea why, anyway all's well when it ends well  :P