After (I think) a recent downgrade of vsftpd the FTP service is no longer available. It used to work for over a year (I always start it from xinetd). But now no matter waht I try in /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf it won't accept FTP requests anymore. I have also tried to start it directly with the LISTEN and BACKGROUND parms but that doens't work either Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.emerge sync && emerge -u world 2. 3. Actual Results: >>> emerge (1 of 4) sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1-r5 to / >>> Downloading ftp://localhost/gentoo/distfiles/gpm-1.20.1.tar.bz2 --21:54:02-- ftp://localhost/gentoo/distfiles/gpm-1.20.1.tar.bz2 => `/usr/portage/distfiles/gpm-1.20.1.tar.bz2' Resolving localhost... 127.0.0.1 Connecting to localhost|127.0.0.1|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server greeting. Retrying. Expected Results: allow normal FTP server requests AthenaGentoo ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0/2.4, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.4.31-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.31-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=athlon-xp -mtune=athlon-xp -fforce-addr -momit-leaf-frame-pointer -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://localhost/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://localhost/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X apm artworkextra avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin cdr crypt cups curl doc dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 howl imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc moznomail moznoxft mozsvg mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nntp offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slp spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
Please attach your /etc/vsftpd/vsftpd.conf and /etc/xinetd.d/vsftpd files and post which version of vsftpd you're having this issue with.
Created attachment 65542 [details] VSFTPD main config
Created attachment 65543 [details] XINETD main config
Oh now the problem may become apparent! I noticed a downgrade but now I see to what: AthenaGentoo ~ # equery list -p vsftpd [ Searching for package 'vsftpd' in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] net-ftp/vsftpd-1.2.2 (0) * Portage tree (/usr/portage) [-P-] [M ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (0) AthenaGentoo ~ # emerge -pv vsftpd These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] net-ftp/vsftpd-1.2.2 +ipv6 +pam +tcpd 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB A
Created attachment 65544 [details] XINETD vsftpd config
vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 is stable on x86 - why did it downgrade yours? Try re-emerging vsftpd-2*
Roy: I don't know! As my post shows it is masked somehow. Maybe because it's a 2.4 kernel? Should I force this? How? Andr
Roy: I don't know! As my post shows it is masked somehow. Maybe because it's a 2.4 kernel? Should I force this? How? André.
AFAIK nothing is masking vsftpd-2* Check for it in /etc/portage/package.mask (if you have that file) or just grep for it grep vsftpd /etc/portage/* -R lastly, try this emerge -av "=net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1" it may tell you why it's masked.
I'm sorry, it's my own stupid fault. I indeed had masked it out in /etc/portage/package.mask. I think it was because an update was blocked by ftpbase and I wanted to get rid of that message; then I entered that line incorrectly so it was downgraded instead. Sorry again for wasting your time.
See my previous remark. It wasn't a bug after all.
