[SOLVED]dispatch-conf diff3: subsidiary program

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metalfan · Post by **metalfan** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:19 pm

hi,

this is the complete error:

dispatch-conf
diff3: subsidiary program `/usr/bin/diff' failed (exit status 2)

but it looks like it worked...why the error?

greets
metalfan

RandomAccess · Post by **RandomAccess** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 5:18 pm

This happened to me today as well. I ran emerge -vuD world as I often do, and the following packages were updated/installed:

sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r6
dev-libs/libusb-0.1.10a
app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r2
dev-perl/HTML-Parser-3.46

At the end of the emerge process, it said there were 2 config files to update. I ran dispatch-conf and got:

diff3: subsidiary program `/usr/bin/diff' failed (exit status 2)
diff3: subsidiary program `/usr/bin/diff' failed (exit status 2)

I'm not sure which of the above packages provided the updated config files (I'm guessing it was probably xorg), but now what?

metalfan · Post by **metalfan** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 7:34 pm

it didnt blew my system into peaces even with the error...its running fine until now.

greets
metalfan

DrKOks · Post by **DrKOks** » Wed Nov 23, 2005 11:51 pm

Same problem here. After updating xorg-x11 some config-files had to be changed (unfortunately I don't know which). dispatch-conf gave me the error "diff3: subsidiary program `/usr/bin/diff' failed (exit status 2)". I re-emerged xorg and no config-files had to be updated. So I think dispatch-conf was successful the first time. "diff --help" says "Exit status is 0 if successful, 1 if conflicts, 2 if trouble" (but what kind of trouble???).

Any ideas how to track down the problem?

Joseph_sys · Post by **Joseph_sys** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 7:47 pm

I will join the team.
I have the same error on two boxes, and would like to know what is the solution.

blacky78 · Post by **blacky78** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 12:23 pm

Reemerge diffutils as told in an other thread here. Works fine for me.

115552 · Post by **115552** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:14 pm

same problem here.. after that error, you run dispatch-conf again and it sees nothing.

re-emerged diffutils and ran dispatch-conf again, still it sees nothing to edit.

re-emerged xorg-x11 afterwards and ran dispatch-conf again, still the same.

Raffi · Post by **Raffi** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:10 am

The files updated after xorg were binary. That is the reason for the error. The files were updated after dispatch-conf was run so they did not need anything else to be done.

[SOLVED]dispatch-conf diff3: subsidiary program

[SOLVED]dispatch-conf diff3: subsidiary program

Yeah, same here

reemerge diffutils -> solved