Bug 80927 – QMAIL Ebuilds fail to create queue directory

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel 2005-02-05 16:41:54 UTC]

When emerging qmail, after I start it using /etc/init.d/svscan start.
When I attempt to send an email it does not go through, the log complains:
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@40000000420564330462b41c alert: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory
@4000000042056434076d9a8c alert: cannot start: unable to switch to queue directory
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There is no /var/qmail/queue directory.  This has happened with both -r13 and -r16


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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emerge info:
Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.7 i686 Pentium III (Katmai)
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 22 2004, 03:26:50)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.19-r1, 2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind
/var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control /var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 apache apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups doc encode f77
fastcgi flash font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm imagemagick imap
imlib innodb ipv6 java jpeg junit ldap libg++ libwww maildir mcal memlimit
mikmod mod_php motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls pam pdflib perl php png pop3
postgres python quicktime readline ruby sasl sdl slang snmp spamassassin spell
sse ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml2 zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Daniel 2005-02-05 17:04:34 UTC]

Just got an additional error message from during the build:
 * Setting up the message queue hierarchy ...
/usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh: line 496: /var/qmail/bin/queue-fix: No such file or directory
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2005-02-05 17:07:26 UTC]

How did you install qmail?
queue-fix is a dependancy for qmail, and should have been installed before qmail, so that it could be used to create the correct queue structures.

[Comment 3 Daniel 2005-02-05 17:18:08 UTC]

I used emerge qmail.

I just pulled the queue-fix off my workstation to fix this.  Don't understand why the ebuild didn't install it...

[Comment 4 Robin Johnson 2005-02-05 17:23:24 UTC]

could you include the output of 
'emerge -ptv queue-fix'
and
'emerge -etpv qmail'

[Comment 5 Daniel 2005-02-05 17:38:11 UTC]

redrover var # emerge -ptv queue-fix 

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies  ...done!
[ebuild   R   ] net-mail/queue-fix-1.4-r2  21 kB 


redrover var # emerge -etpv qmail

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies            ...done!                       
[ebuild  N    ] mail-mta/qmail-1.03-r16  -noauthcram -notlsbeforeauth (-selinux) +ssl 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  net-mail/checkpassword-0.90-r1  -pic -static 15 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  sys-apps/daemontools-0.76-r4  +doc (-selinux) -static 36 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   app-doc/daemontools-man-20020131  7 kB
[ebuild  N    ]    app-arch/tar-1.14  -build -debug +nls -static 1,052 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     app-arch/ncompress-4.2.4-r1  -build 39 kB
[ebuild  N    ]    app-arch/gzip-1.3.5-r5  -build -debug +nls -pic -static 332 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  net-mail/queue-fix-1.4-r2  21 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  net-mail/dot-forward-0.71-r1  25 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  net-mail/cmd5checkpw-0.22-r1  23 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  sys-apps/ucspi-tcp-0.88-r9  +ipv6 (-selinux) +ssl 81 kB
[ebuild  N    ]   sys-libs/glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1  -build -debug -erandom -hardened (-multilib) +nls -nptl -pic -userlocales 15,372 kB
[ebuild  N    ]    sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r6  -bootstrap -build -debug -livecd (-selinux) -static (-uclibc) 197 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     sys-apps/util-linux-2.12i-r1  +crypt -debug +nls +pam +perl (-selinux) -static 1,933 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      app-crypt/hashalot-0.3  78 kB
[ebuild  N    ]       sys-apps/grep-2.5.1-r6  -build -debug +nls -pcre -static (-uclibc) 667 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.35-r1  -debug -diet +nls -static 3,078 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1  -build 27,864 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-apps/pam-login-3.14  -livecd +nls (-selinux) 137 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     sys-apps/gawk-3.1.3-r2  -build +nls (-uclibc) 2,029 kB
[ebuild  N    ]    sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5-r1  -bootstrap -boundschecking -build -debug +fortran -gcj -gtk -hardened (-ip28) (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) +nls -nocxx -objc -static (-uclibc) 23,578 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1  -bootstrap -build -debug -multitarget +nls (-uclibc) 10,824 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.8-r4  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-apps/portage-2.0.51-r15  -build -debug (-selinux) 271 kB
[ebuild  N    ]       dev-lang/python-2.3.4  -X +berkdb -bootstrap -build -debug +doc +gdbm +ipv6 +ncurses +readline +ssl -tcltk -ucs2 7,020 kB
[ebuild  N    ]        dev-python/python-docs-2.3.4  1,220 kB
[ebuild  N    ]        dev-libs/openssl-0.9.7d-r2  -debug -emacs (-uclibc) 4,866 kB
[ebuild  N    ]         dev-lang/perl-5.8.5-r3  +berkdb -debug +doc +gdbm -ithreads -perlsuid (-uclibc) 11,651 kB
[ebuild  N    ]          sys-devel/libperl-5.8.5  +berkdb -debug +gdbm -ithreads (-uclibc) 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]           sys-libs/gdbm-1.8.3-r1  +berkdb -debug 223 kB
[ebuild  N    ]            sys-libs/db-1.85-r1  264 kB
[ebuild  N    ] sys-apps/man-1.5p  -debug +nls 228 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  sys-apps/cronbase-0.3.1  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]           sys-apps/groff-1.19.1-r2  -X -debug 2,567 kB
[ebuild  N    ]          sys-libs/db-4.1.25_p1-r4  -bootstrap +doc +java -nocxx -tcltk 3,008 kB
[ebuild  N F  ]           dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.07  +doc -gnome -jce -kde -mozilla 35,553 kB
[ebuild  N F  ]            dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4.2  33,591 kB
[ebuild  N    ]            sys-libs/lib-compat-1.4  +sdl 3,090 kB
[ebuild  N    ]             media-libs/libsdl-1.2.7-r3  -X -aalib -alsa -arts -dga -directfb -esd -fbcon -ggi -libcaca -nas -noaudio -nojoystick -novideo -opengl -oss -svga -xinerama -xv 2,413 kB
[ebuild  N    ]              dev-lang/nasm-0.98.38-r1  -build +doc 535 kB
[ebuild  N    ]               app-text/ghostscript-7.07.1-r7  -X -cjk +cups -debug -emacs 5,273 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                media-libs/fontconfig-2.2.3  732 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                 media-libs/freetype-2.1.5-r1  -bindist -cjk -debug +doc +zlib 830 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                 dev-libs/expat-1.95.8  -test 310 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                net-print/cups-1.1.23-r1  -debug +nls +pam -samba -slp +ssl 8,501 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                 sys-libs/pam-0.77-r6  +berkdb -debug -pwdb (-selinux) 544 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                  sys-devel/automake-1.9.4  (-uclibc) 734 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                   sys-devel/automake-wrapper-1  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                    sys-devel/automake-1.4_p6  (-uclibc) 366 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                    sys-devel/automake-1.7.9-r1  (-uclibc) 564 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                    sys-devel/automake-1.6.3  (-uclibc) 465 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                    sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r3  (-uclibc) 647 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                    sys-devel/automake-1.5  (-uclibc) 514 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                  sys-libs/cracklib-2.7-r10  -debug +pam (-uclibc) 20 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                   sys-apps/miscfiles-1.3-r1  (-uclibc) 2,153 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                  dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5  -debug 411 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                 media-libs/libpng-1.2.8  -debug 375 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                 media-libs/tiff-3.7.1-r1  1,224 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                  media-libs/jpeg-6b-r4  -debug 598 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                 sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r6  903 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                  sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-2  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                   sys-devel/autoconf-2.13  433 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                dev-util/pkgconfig-0.15.0  596 kB
[ebuild  N    ]                media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std-8.11  3,664 kB
[ebuild  N    ]               sys-apps/texinfo-4.7-r1  -build -debug +nls -static 1,385 kB
[ebuild  N    ]              media-libs/audiofile-0.2.6-r1  365 kB
[ebuild  N    ]            app-arch/unzip-5.50-r2  1,043 kB
[ebuild  N    ]            dev-java/java-config-1.2.11  15 kB
[ebuild  N    ]         sys-apps/diffutils-2.8.7  -debug +nls -static 1,033 kB
[ebuild  N    ]         sys-devel/bc-1.06-r5  -debug +readline -static 272 kB
[ebuild  N    ]          sys-devel/flex-2.5.4a-r5  -build -debug -static 372 kB
[ebuild  N    ]        sys-libs/readline-4.3-r5  947 kB
[ebuild  N    ]       app-shells/bash-2.05b-r9  -build -debug +nls (-uclibc) 1,923 kB
[ebuild  N    ]       sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r4  -build -debug -static 25 kB
[ebuild  N    ]        app-arch/bzip2-1.0.2-r4  -build -debug -static 649 kB
[ebuild  N    ]       dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1  26 kB
[ebuild  N    ]        sys-libs/zlib-1.2.2  -build -debug 363 kB
[ebuild  N    ]       sys-apps/sed-4.0.9  -bootstrap -build -debug +nls -static 751 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     sys-devel/bison-1.875d  -debug +nls -static 862 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-devel/m4-1.4.1  +nls 335 kB
[ebuild  N    ]       sys-devel/gettext-0.12.1-r2  -emacs +nls 5,592 kB
[ebuild  N    ]     sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r5  -bootstrap -build -debug +doc +gpm -nocxx (-uclibc) -unicode 2,103 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-devel/gnuconfig-20040214  (-uclibc) 30 kB
[ebuild  N    ]      sys-libs/gpm-1.20.1  (-selinux) 558 kB
[ebuild  N    ]       sys-devel/patch-2.5.9  -build -debug -static 197 kB

Total size of downloads: 242,625 k

[Comment 6 Robin Johnson 2005-02-05 17:41:08 UTC]

that says queue-fix was already installed on your machine.
How did you copy it over from your workstation?

Did you ever mess around with the content of /var/db/pkg? 
(this includes copying it over from another machine).

[Comment 7 Daniel 2005-02-05 17:43:28 UTC]

I used scp to get it from my workstation to server.
And no, I have never played with anything in /var/db/pkg or copied it from another machine.

I just realized, i thought queue-fix came with qmail.  And because I wanted to do a fresh qmail and mail system install i did rm -dvfr /var/qmail .  I assume this would be why queue-fix wasn't showing up in the /var/qmail/bin dir after i reinstalled qmail?

[Comment 8 Robin Johnson 2005-02-05 18:14:42 UTC]

rm -rf /var/qmail was a very bad move.
qmail is not the only thing that installs files in there.

run:
( cd /var/db/pkg ; find -name CONTENTS -exec grep /var/qmail \{} -l \; )
to get a list of packages that put files in /var/qmail.

I'm marking this as invalid, as you've found out what you did wrong.
To clean out qmail in future, emerge unmerge qmail, and then clean out the control dir manually.