At my tinderbox I was wondering about this output: $ uniq /tmp/tinderbox.start.log.3 rmdir: failed to remove '/etc/firewall': Directory not empty till I realized this : tinderbox@ms-magpie ~ $ sudo chroot amd64-desktop-unstable_20160220-211358/ ms-magpie / # qlop --gauge --human --list --unlist gshield Sat Mar 12 23:45:23 2016 >>> net-firewall/gshield-2.8-r3 gshield: Sat Mar 12 23:45:02 2016: 21 seconds gshield: 1 times ms-magpie / # ls -ld /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 12 23:45 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/ ms-magpie / # ls -ld /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/* drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 12 23:45 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/conf drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 12 23:45 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/DMZ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28325 May 28 2002 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/gShield.conf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 12 23:45 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/gShield.rc -> /usr/share/gshield/gShield.rc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Mar 12 23:45 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/gShield-version -> /usr/share/gshield/gShield-version drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 12 23:45 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/routables lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 Mar 12 23:45 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/sourced -> /usr/share/gshield/sourced lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Mar 12 23:45 /etc/._cfg0000_firewall/tools -> /usr/share/gshield/tools ms-magpie / # equery b /etc/firewall * Searching for /etc/firewall ... net-firewall/firewalld-0.4.0 (/etc/firewall) net-firewall/gshield-2.8-r3 (/etc/firewall -> gshield)
Looks like you need to run etc-update or alike?
(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1) This *is* from etc-update - mainly, b/c it is not a file, but a directory ?