On two ~x86 machines that pulled in portage-2.1.10.53 today, I'm having problems with dispatch-conf. Namely, whenever there are configuration files for it to update and I invoke it, I get this error message: eee1215n etc # dispatch-conf Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 494, in <module> portage.settings.get('CONFIG_PROTECT', ''))) File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 251, in grind confs = [x for x in confs if f(x)] File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 251, in <listcomp> confs = [x for x in confs if f(x)] File "/usr/sbin/dispatch-conf", line 170, in f mrgfail = portage.dispatch_conf.file_archive(archive, conf['current'], conf['new'], mrgconf) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dispatch_conf.py", line 141, in file_archive and len(diffstatusoutput("diff -aq '%s' '%s'", curconf, archive)[1]) != 0: File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dispatch_conf.py", line 34, in diffstatusoutput stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT, shell=True) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 741, in __init__ restore_signals, start_new_session) File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 1193, in _execute_child restore_signals, start_new_session, preexec_fn) TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly Used to work fine with my previous portage, so it seems something is wrong here. Any ideas? Reproducible: Always eee1215n ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.53 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.3.0-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.3.0-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Atom-TM-_CPU_D525_@_1.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 01 Apr 2012 05:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p24 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.7-r5 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.9.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.6 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.3 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r2 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch xattr" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://rush.tisys.org/pub/gentoo/ http://rush.tisys.org/pub/gentoo/ ftp://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ http://de-mirror.org/distro/gentoo/ rsync://de-mirror.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ rsync://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.opteamax.de/gentoo/ rsync://mirror.opteamax.de/gentoo/ http://mirror.opteamax.de/gentoo/ http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-mirror/ ftp://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ rsync://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de/mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo rsync://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/gentoo/ ftp://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ rsync://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo ftp://ftp.ipv6.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rush.tisys.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib acl acpi alsa apng audiofile bash-completion bcmath berkdb bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus device-mapper doc dri dvdr encode examples exif extra extras firefox flac fontconfig fortran ftp gdbm gdu gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtkhtml gudev gzip hal hddtemp iconv idn imagemagick imap ipv6 jadetex jpeg jpeg2k kpathsea lame latex lm_sensors lzma lzo mad maildir matroska mbox mhash mime minizip mmap mmx mng modplug modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap musepack ncurses nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg openal openmp pam pcre pdf perl png policykit pop posix ppds pppd pulseaudio python readline recode sasl session sharedmem smime smp smtp sndfile sockets source spell sse sse2 ssl svg sysfs tcpd theora threads tidy tiff tk truetype udev unicode usb vim-syntax vorbis wavpack wifi wma x86 xattr xcb xcomposite xft xml xmlrpc xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf 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 mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga neomagic nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa dummy v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
This is fixed in git: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=dbb74f7abe050252655b7b4a0c4517e747ac7c08
This is fixed in 2.1.10.54 and 2.2.0_alpha98.
