I emerged qmail-1.03-r15 just fine, but after configuring and attempting to run /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run I get: koalabear qmail-send # ./run status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying... alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying... status: exiting I found someone else who was having the same issues. The URL above shows the exact same problem I was having. Basically because of some type promotion issues, illustrated here: http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tech_TechSingleTipDetailPage_IDX/1,2366,195,00.html qmail-send will crash. The solution is to add the #include "alloc.h" into spawn.c. I added that and now qmail-start runs happily. I can attach straces or other info if needed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge qmail-1.03-r15 2. configure qmail 3. run /var/qmail/supervise/qmail-send/run Actual Results: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying... alert: oh no! lost spawn connection! dying... status: exiting Expected Results: status: local 0/10 remote 0/20 and not crash koalabear qmail-send # emerge info Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-ia64-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r12, 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 ia64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 ia64 Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ia64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" CHOST="ia64-unknown-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://loki.abuse-att.net/gentoo-portage" USE="berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt foomaticdb ia64 innodb libg++ libwww maildir mikmod ncurses nocardbus pam perl pg-vacuumdelay pic pie postgres python readline samba slang spell ssl tcpd xml2 xprint zlib"
Created attachment 42185 [details, diff] Trivial #include "alloc.h" patch
Anybody want to touch this one?
let ia64 port it.
Can someone port this please?
I didn't even know about this until now...
Fixed in qmail-1.03-r15 and -r16 (the later hardmasked).
Closing.