My mail stop working :-( tail messages Jan 6 13:18:44 localhost postfix/qmgr[26405]: 27DBD2EAEDB: from=<root@sysconcept.ca>, size=387, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jan 6 13:18:45 localhost postfix/master[26401]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 26407 exit status 1 Jan 6 13:18:45 localhost postfix/master[26401]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling Jan 6 13:19:45 localhost postfix/local[26439]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit Jan 6 13:19:46 localhost postfix/master[26401]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 26439 exit status 1 Jan 6 13:19:46 localhost postfix/master[26401]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling Jan 6 13:20:01 localhost cron[26450]: (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && /usr/sbin/run-crons) Jan 6 13:20:46 localhost postfix/local[26483]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit Jan 6 13:20:47 localhost postfix/master[26401]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 26483 exit status 1 Jan 6 13:20:47 localhost postfix/master[26401]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling Jan 6 13:21:47 localhost postfix/local[26514]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit Jan 6 13:21:48 localhost postfix/master[26401]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/local pid 26514 exit status 1 Jan 6 13:21:48 localhost postfix/master[26401]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/local: bad command startup -- throttling Jan 6 13:22:48 localhost postfix/local[26547]: fatal: unable to determine open file limit Is it still problem with glibc-2.13-r4 Reproducible: Always Portage 2.1.10.41 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-i686-AMD_Athlon-TM-_XP_2500+-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:00:01 +0000 ccache version 3.1.6 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.1.4-r3 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.6 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.1.2, 4.5.3-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.39 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA PUEL dlj-1.1 Oracle-BCLA-JavaSE" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distro.ibidio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/ ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.binarycompass.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gdu gif gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 java jpeg kpathsea lcms ldap libnotify mad mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds pppd qt3support readline scanner sdl semantic-desktop session spell ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tetex tiff truetype type1 udev unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" 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 auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd 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 dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias cgi" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa fbdev" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Updating to newer kernel 3.0.6 and rebuilding postfix solved the problem.