when posting a lot of data, newspost will eventually bork... Posting part 147 of 156: done. Posting part 148 of 156: done. WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 postpuÿRetrying WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 postpuÿRetrying WARNING: unexpected server response: 240 postpuÿRetrying Socket error: Broken pipe Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. post a lot of data 2. wait 3. error occurs after posting 2 to 3 GB of data i found this info http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa-packages/2005/03/msg00274.html which describes the same error as experienced by a debian user, but i can't get his patch to work. after applying his patch i receive the error... nntp.c:109: error: conflicting types for '_nntp_post' nntp.c:109: note: an argument type that has a default promotion can't match an empty parameter name list declaration nntp.c:81: error: previous implicit declaration of '_nntp_post' was here make[2]: *** [nntp.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... make[1]: *** [main] Error 2 make: *** [opt] Error 2 !!! ERROR: net-nntp/newspost-2.1.1-r101 failed. Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1621: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 973: Called qa_call 'src_compile' ebuild.sh, line 44: Called src_compile newspost-2.1.1-r101.ebuild, line 36: Called die i don't have the programming knowledge to fix it. a problem with the way a variable is declared.
Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.20-ck1-20070714-64 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-ck1-20070714-64 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 14:30:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -finline-functions -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftree-vectorize" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /etc/X11 /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -finline-functions -fprefetch-loop-arrays -ftree-vectorize" DISTDIR="/local/distfiles" FEATURES="buildpkg distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="--jobs=2 --quiet" PKGDIR="/local/packages64" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/local/gentoo/tmp" PORTDIR="/local/gentoo/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/local/gentoo/overlays/se /local/gentoo/overlays/xeffects /local/gentoo/overlays/xeffects-experimental" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 amr amuled apache2 apm arj arts asf audiofile avahi avi berkdb bidi bindist binfilter bitmap-fonts bl browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cli cpudetection cracklib crypt css cups curl custom-cflags dbus device-mapper dga dio directfb divx divx4linux dlloader dmi dmx dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread dxr3 eds emboss emerald encode erandom esd evo exif expat fam fame fat fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp fuse gdbm ggi gif gimpprint glibc-omitfp glitz glut gmedia gmp gnome gnutls gpm grammar gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml gtkspell hal hardened hfs httpd i8x0 iconv icq idn ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 irc isdnlog ithreads jack jack-tmpfs java jbig jfs joystick jpeg jpeg2000 justify kde kdeenablefinal kdexdeltas kerberos kqemu ladcca lame lcd lcms ldap lha libcaca libclamav libg++ libgda libvisual libwww linuxthreads-tls live lzo mad math matroska mbox mgetty midi mikmod mime mjpeg mmap mmx mng modplug motif mozbranding mozilla mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap musepack mysql mythtv nas ncurses nls nntp nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia objc ofx ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oss ots pam pcre pdf pdflib perl perlsuid php pic pie png portaudio posix pppd profile pulseaudio python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline realmedia recode reflection reiser4 reiserfs rtc samba sdl session shared shorten slang smp sndfile socks5 sox speex spell spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl stream subtitles svg tcl tcpd test tga theora thesaurus threads threadsafe tiff tk toolbar tools transmitter truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd vdr vlm vorbis wmf wmp wxwindows x264 xanim xcomposite xfs xine xinerama xinetd xml xml2 xorg xprint xv xvid xvmc yahoo zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" LIRC_DEVICES="hauppauge" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Please try with the new revision -r2 which I've just committed to CVS (you'll need to add it to package.keywords as it's marked ~amd64, of course).
