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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 11:36:33 -0600
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On 01/05/2016 10:40 AM, Stuart Aird (zizigy AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-help AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> I think it's due to loading the first footprint it finds with that name, a few footprints are duplicated and tend to swap randomly
> for me.

Did you use the PCB import from gschem command?  If you open your .pcb file after importing, do you see multiple footprints of the 
same name?  For example smd0603.fp?

Element["" "smd0603.fp" "C5" "0.1_uF" 184457 134500 -13511 -1841 0 100 ""]
(
	Pad[-3543 0 -3149 0 3937 2000 5937 "1" "1" "square"]
	Pad[3149 0 3543 0 3937 2000 5937 "2" "2" "square,edge2"]
	ElementLine [-7011 3468 7011 3468 1000]
	ElementLine [7011 -3468 7011 3468 1000]
	ElementLine [-7011 -3468 7011 -3468 1000]
	ElementLine [-7011 -3468 -7011 3468 1000]

	)


Do some look different pads and ElementLine lengths?

If so, something is probably going wrong at importing time.

Do you know how your library lists are?  If the same named footprint is in two directories, maybe it gets one, then another.
The libraries need to be uniquely named footprints unless only one version at a time is in your library search path.

~/.pcb/settings  has lib-newlib = /home/your-dir-names-go-here/your-dir-names-go-here/your-dir-names-go-here/

John