fortune needs explicitly the path: tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/ethereal/trunk $ fortune -a No fortunes found tfoerste@n22 ~/devel/ethereal/trunk $ fortune -a /usr/share/fortune/ Uh-oh -- WHY am I suddenly thinking of a VENERABLE religious leader frolicking on a FORT LAUDERDALE weekend? BTW I found that in the man page: FILES Note: these are the defaults as defined at compile time. /var/tmp/portage/fortune-mod-1.99.1-r1/image//usr/share/fortune Directory for innoffensive fortunes. /var/tmp/portage/fortune-mod-1.99.1-r1/image//usr/share/fortune/off Directory for offensive fortunes. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-hardened-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-hardened-r13 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1700MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 6 2005, 16:34:26)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] 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, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r7 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://mir1.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi aim alsa apache2 arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts blas cardbus cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode esd ethereal fam font-server foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib innodb ipv6 jai java javascript jimi jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww live mad mbox mikmod mmx mmxext mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql nagios-dns nagios-ntp nagios-ping nagios-s ncurses network nls no-old-linux ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slp smime snmp spell sse sse2 ssl subversion svg svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis webdav wifi xanim xfs xine xml2 xmms xv zlib linguas_de linguas_en userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Works just fine here, does not need any path at all. $ fortune -a "Russia is no longer our enemy, and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale." George W. Bush June 8, 2001 From speech in Des Moines, Iowa. :-)
What is with your man page ? Are the paths there correct or do they include /var/tmp/portage/fortune-mod-1.99.1-r1/image/ ?
no response and works fine for me. marking FIXED.
Something must be changed in the system between May 26 where I emerged fortune-mod and today because a simple rebuilding now yields an a fortune working fine - and in addition the paths shown with 'man fortune' are ok - seems there was a problem with portage ?
*** Bug 85841 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
