With the current update to sys-apps/gawk-3.1.4-r4 I can't start strongswan any more. I tested with strongswan-versions 2.4.4, 2.5.0 and 2.5.2 (which isn't in portage yet). Downgrading to sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3-r2 helps. This is the error: elladan ~ # /etc/init.d/ipsec start * Starting IPSEC ... ... awk: cmd. line:104: default[""] = "" awk: cmd. line:104: ^ syntax error awk: cmd. line:324: } else if (search in default) awk: cmd. line:324: ^ syntax error awk: cmd. line:328: default[search] = rest awk: cmd. line:328: ^ syntax error awk: cmd. line:329: else awk: cmd. line:329: ^ syntax error awk: cmd. line:390: if (name in default) awk: cmd. line:390: ^ syntax error awk: cmd. line:392: default[name] = value awk: cmd. line:392: ^ syntax error awk: cmd. line:413: for (name in default) awk: cmd. line:413: ^ syntax error awk: cmd. line:415: output(o_parm, name, default[name]) awk: cmd. line:415: ^ syntax error awk: cmd. line:417: if (default[search] in wanted) awk: cmd. line:417: ^ syntax error ipsec_setup: ipsec setup: /usr/lib/ipsec/_realsetup must be called by ipsec_setup [ !! ] elladan ~ # And this is my info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-suspend2-r2-elladan i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-suspend2-r2-elladan i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 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: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -ffast-math -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -ffast-math -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/download/gentoo-mirror/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync1.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X aac aalib acl acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr cjk crypt cscope cups curl dga dmx dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif faac faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gdbm gif gnome gpm gps gstreamer gtk gtk2 ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inetd ipv6 irda jabber java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas libcaca libg++ libwww mad mailbox maildir mbox md5sum mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpeg4 mplayer multislot multitarget music ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png pnp posix procmail python qt quicktime radeon readline rtc samba sdl skey slang speex spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff timidity transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vcd videos vim vorbis wavelan wifi win32codecs xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
strongswan 2.5.4 is now in portage which fixes the gawk issue.
Thanks, works! According to the Changelog it was an upstream-issue. I'll close this bug.