Emerge qmail seems to go smoothly during installation into /var/tmp/... but I get errors on installing into /, thus: >>> Completed installing qmail-1.03-r15 into /var/tmp/portage/qmail-1.03-r15/image/ >>> Merging mail-mta/qmail-1.03-r15 to / * Error moving /etc/tcp.smtp to /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-smtp, be sure to check the * configuration! You may have already moved the files, * in which case you can delete /etc/tcp.smtp * Error moving /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb to /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-smtp.cdb, be sure to check the * configuration! You may have already moved the files, * in which case you can delete /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb * Error moving /etc/tcp.qmtp to /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-qmtp, be sure to check the * configuration! You may have already moved the files, * in which case you can delete /etc/tcp.qmtp * Error moving /etc/tcp.qmtp.cdb to /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-qmtp.cdb, be sure to check the * configuration! You may have already moved the files, * in which case you can delete /etc/tcp.qmtp.cdb * Error moving /etc/tcp.qmqp to /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-qmqp, be sure to check the * configuration! You may have already moved the files, * in which case you can delete /etc/tcp.qmqp * Error moving /etc/tcp.qmqp.cdb to /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-qmqp.cdb, be sure to check the * configuration! You may have already moved the files, * in which case you can delete /etc/tcp.qmqp.cdb * Error moving /etc/tcp.pop3 to /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-pop3, be sure to check the * configuration! You may have already moved the files, * in which case you can delete /etc/tcp.pop3 * Error moving /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb to /etc/tcprules.d/tcp.qmail-pop3.cdb, be sure to check the * configuration! You may have already moved the files, * in which case you can delete /etc/tcp.pop3.cdb * >>> SetUID: [chmod go-r] /var/tmp/portage/qmail-1.03-r15/image//var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue ... [ ok ] On checking, I find those files have been moved to /etc/tcprules.d, so that's worked alright and I ignore the errors. But then I get: * Setting up the message queue hierarchy ... /usr/portage/mail-mta/qmail/qmail-1.03-r15.ebuild: line 440: /var/qmail/bin/queue-fix: No such file or directory # ls /var/qmail/bin bouncesaying pinq qmail-newu qmail-showctl condredirect predate qmail-pop3d qmail-smtpd config-fast preline qmail-popup qmail-start config-sanity-check qail qmail-pw2u qmail-tcpok datemail qbiff qmail-qmqpc qmail-tcpto elq qmail-clean qmail-qmqpd qreceipt except qmail-config-system qmail-qmtpd qsmhook forward qmail-getpw qmail-qread sendmail maildir2mbox qmail-inject qmail-qstat splogger maildirmake qmail-local qmail-queue tcp-env maildirwatch qmail-lspawn qmail-remote mailsubj qmail-newbrt qmail-rspawn mkservercert qmail-newmrh qmail-send I believe I can't send or receive mail until this problem is fixed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. gaia ~ # emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1,glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 Celeron (Mendocino) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4-r1, 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.4, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1, 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4, 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="no" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 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/X11/xdm/Xservers /etc/fonts /etc/gconf /etc/rc.d /etc/rsync /etc/terminfo /etc/wget /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig bldpkg ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" LC_ALL="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j3" <<<<<<<<<<< this is a two-Celeron box PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd emboss encode foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode userlocales xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib linguas_en_GB userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS # cat /etc/make.conf CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" MAKEOPTS="-j3" USE="-gnome -java -kde -X bash-completion cdr cups dvd foomaticdb gimpprint nls nptl nptlonly ppds svga tcpd unicode userlocales xprint" CCACHE_SIZE="2G" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" RSYNC_RETRIES="2" RSYNC_TIMEOUT=40 PORTAGE_NICENESS=3 AUTOCLEAN="no" LINGUAS="en_GB" LANG="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" LANGUAGE="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" LC_ALL="en_GB.ISO-8859-15" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage PORTAGE_TMPFS="/dev/shm" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/wget /etc/rc.d /etc/fonts /etc/rsync /etc/terminfo /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers" FEATURES="bldpkg ccache userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
qmail depends on queue-fix ebuild. That provide the queue-fix program qmail-need during emerge. Are you sure you have not deleted the queue-fix program before re-emerging qmail. It happened to me, while removing the directory /var/qmail ... where queue-fix is. Had to re-emerge queue-fix
I ran some tests recommended in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/qmail-howto.xml and got the following error: gaia ~ # ssh prh@localhost <passwd> prh@gaia ~ $ maildirmake .maildir prh@gaia ~ $ qmail-inject root << EOF > test root e-mail! > EOF qmail-inject: fatal: qq trouble creating files in queue (#4.3.0) I think this confirms that I cannot send or receive mail, which is a bit of a problem as this is my mail server :-(
You did 'rm -rf /var/qmail' didn't you... qmail is NOT the only package that installs into that directory. do this: cd /var/db/pkg find -name CONTENTS -exec egrep -Hl /var/qmail \{} \; unmerge those packages, then emerge qmail again, and it will fix things up.
