betelgeuse@pena ~ $ herdstat -m cairo foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar foobar Package: x11-libs/cairo Herds(1): gnome Maintainers(3): cardoe@gentoo.org latexer@gentoo.org* twp@gentoo.org* License: LGPL-2.1 MPL-1.1 Homepage: http://cairographics.org/ Description: A vector graphics library with cross-device output support * Currently away This does not happen when I run herdstat -m cairo again. betelgeuse@pena ~ $ emerge info Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe -mfpmath=sse -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/src/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms sign strict stricter verify-rdepend" GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo http://lame.lut.fi/linux/gentoo " LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="fi" MAKEOPTS="-j2 " PKGDIR="/home/pkg/" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/mnt/checkouts/overlays/betelgeuse" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 aac acl acpi alsa apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 bzlib cdb cddb cdparanoia crypt cups dbus divx4linux dts dvd dvdr dvdread emboss esd firefox foomaticdb freetype gif gstreamer gtk2 hal java jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++ libwww logitech-mouse mad makecheck mikmod mjpeg mmx mmx2 mp3 mpeg ncurses network nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib png qt quicktime readline real rtc samba spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg symlink tcpd theora truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xcomposite xml xml2 xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_mouse input_devices_keyboard kernel_linux linguas_fi userland_GNU video_cards_none video_cards_nvidia" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LDFLAGS
Well the only occurrence of "foobar" in both libherdstat and herdstat is in one of the libherdstat tests so I have no clue where that is coming from. I'm not able to reproduce here. Can you get at it with gdb or something?
Found the cause. herdstat seems to be using my wget wrapper script in /usr/lib/portage/bin that outputs foobar when it is used. I improved the message so that I won't get fooled like this again. Sorry about the noise.
