I ran dispatch-conf and at one file it wanted to update, /etc/hotplug/usb/libusbscanner, I selected to interactively merge it because there was one change I made that I wanted to keep. This resulted in the file: ------------------ #!/bin/sh # This file is part of sane-backends. # # This script changes the permissions and ownership of a USB device under # /proc/bus/usb to grant access to this device to users in the scanner group. # # Ownership is set to root:scanner, permissions are set to 0660. # # Arguments : # ----------- # ACTION=[add|remove] # DEVICE=/proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD # TYPE=usb # latest hotplug doesn't set DEVICE on 2.6.x kernels if [ -z "$DEVICE" ] ; then IF=`echo $DEVPATH | sed 's/\(bus\/usb\/devices\/\)\(.*\)-\(.*\)/\2/'` DEV=`echo $DEVPATH | sed 's/\(bus\/usb\/devices\/\)\(.*\)-\(.*\)/\3/'` DEV=`expr $DEV + 1` DEVICE=`printf '/proc/bus/usb/%.03d/%.03d' $IF $DEV` fi if [ -z "${DEVICE}" ] ; then IF=$(echo ${DEVPATH} | sed 's:\(bus/usb/devices/\)\(.*\)-\(.*\):\2:') if [ -r /sys/${DEVPATH}/devnum ]; then DEV=$(cat /sys/${DEVPATH}/devnum) else DEV=1 # you'll have to adjust this manually for kernel < 2.6.6 fi DEVICE=$(printf '/proc/bus/usb/%.03d/%.03d' ${IF} ${DEV}) fi #if [ "$ACTION" = "add" -a "$TYPE" = "usb" ]; then # chown root:scanner "$DEVICE" # chmod 0660 "$DEVICE" #fi # That's an insecure but simple alternative # Everyone has access to the scanner if [ "$ACTION" = "add" -a "$TYPE" = "usb" ]; then chmod 0666 "$DEVICE" fi ------------------- It looked suspicious that the first 2 major blocks of code looked similar, so I searched for the original file in the tar.bz2 and looked at it. Sure enough, the 2nd block wasn't there and must have come from the old configuration file. But the merge process didn't remove that block in the diff. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: adam>emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks nostrip sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow acl alsa arts avi bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd encode fam foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg junit kde libwww mmx mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png ppds qt quicktime readline scanner sdl slang ssl tcpd tiff truetype usb xml2 xmms xprint zlib"
You chose interactive mode, which lets you ( among other things ) edit both files and merge them in a pretty open ended fashion. Are you sure you didn't just merge the extra section in by mistake?
It asked me for 3 parts, I'm quite sure: whether I want to use nothing or the block starting with "# latest hotplug doesn't ", whether I want the 2nd from last block commented out, and whether I want the last block commented out. In the first choice I chose to include the block. But it should have been a choice between the 2 blocks. In the diff that it displayed before I selected "merge", it didn't have the old code minused out with "-"; it only had the new code added with "+".
Well, this is darn strange. I just re-installed Gentoo and unless I'm quite mistaken, I haven't touched that file since the installation. But both blocks of code are now in it. Even stranger, only the one block of code is still in the tar.gz file. So maybe there's no problem with dispatch-conf but there is a problem with something.
Might have got this while fixing bug 69869. After 2.0.51.20 comes out, please repoen this if it happens again.
Closing
