The ebuild uses the non existent program/function yesno on the lines 21 and 22. Therefore the init script can not start ser2net. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/ser2net start Actual Results: /etc/init.d/ser2net: line 21: yesno: command not found /etc/init.d/ser2net: line 22: yesno: command not found * Starting Serial to network proxy () ... [ !! ] Expected Results: run ;) Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/x86/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 i686 VIA Nehemiah Timestamp of tree: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:15:03 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Os -march=i686 -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=i686 -mmmx -msse -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks getbinpkg metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.solnet.ch/" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="nptl nptlonly pam x86" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint i810 intel mach64 mga neomagic nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa vga via vmware voodoo" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
hmm, "yesno" is part of new baselayout/openrc. Do you have OpenRC installed already?
(In reply to comment #1) > hmm, "yesno" is part of new baselayout/openrc. Do you have OpenRC installed > already? > Hi Stefan Thank you for your time you have taken. Yes you're right. I haven't installed baselayout/openrc yet. Is there any workaround for this problem? Because at the moment i have no interest in migrating to Baselayout2/OpenRC.
well, this is the needed function of openrc: yesno() { [ -z "$1" ] && return 1 case "$1" in [Yy][Ee][Ss]|[Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee]|[Oo][Nn]|1) return 0;; [Nn][Oo]|[Ff][Aa][Ll][Ss][Ee]|[Oo][Ff][Ff]|0) return 1;; esac local value= eval value=\$${1} case "${value}" in [Yy][Ee][Ss]|[Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee]|[Oo][Nn]|1) return 0;; [Nn][Oo]|[Ff][Aa][Ll][Ss][Ee]|[Oo][Ff][Ff]|0) return 1;; *) vewarn "\$${1} is not set properly"; return 1;; esac } you can add this function either in /etc/init.d/ser2net or in /etc/conf.d/ser2net. Alternatively you can create a shellscript 'yesno' somewhere in your $PATH with the contents/body of the yesno() function. Should work... On the other hand: migrating to baselayout 2.0/openrc takes about 10 minutes. And it's really worth the time!
ahh, well, I close this bug now with WORKSFORME, since this is not really a bug. ;-) ser2net is ~arch as baselayout2/openrc. So either install openrc, or use the mentioned workaround.
