On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 03:52:39 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > > > The comments there say that if you run etc-update right after the > > > emerge all is well (but this isn't sufficient for people who use > > > screen, detatch, and log out). Someone also mentioned > > > dispatch-conf working. No one mentioned cfg-update, which I use > > > (and I believe neil does as well). Could the problem be dependent > > > on which configuration file updater one uses? > > No, he is using conf-update, which is a different utility.
Yes, and it appears that conf-update handles orphaned ._cfg files poorly. Whether these files are allowed to exist or not it not really relevant, it should handle the situation, time for a bug report. Incidentally, if anyone gets hit by this, the simple fix is to re-emerge shadow with --noconfmem, which installs the missing files. -- Neil Bothwick I am Zaphod of Borg. Now, where's the coolest place to be assimilated...
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