Bug 502264 – net-misc/openvpn-2.3.2 - ?

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Adam Gergely 2014-02-23 16:46:23 UTC]

I appologize because I'm filing this bug only today, it's a bug that affected me a while ago.

I also apologize if I describe some inconsistencies, because I do not remember exactly the situation.
I should have filed this bug when the problem happened, I'm sorry.

However, I want to post it here, perhaps somebody else knows this bug and can provide a better description.

The problem:
When emerging OpenVPN version 2.3.2, it fails in the configure phase using the following error message:
"ip utility is required but missing" or "route utility is required but missing",  depending on wether I use OpenVPN with iproute2 or ifconfig in the USE flags.

Both iproute2 and ifconfig (net-tools) are properly installed on my system, that's for sure.

The problem seems to be gone if I reinstall, for example, the iproute2 package. (I am not sure if I reinstalled iproute2 or net-tools, but I reinstalled one of them, that's for sure).
I need to re-emerge iproute2 (for example) and after that OpenVPN emerges OK.
But if I try to reinstall OpenVPN another time, it will still fail with one of the above errors, depending on what USE flags I use.

[Comment 1 Adam Gergely 2014-02-23 16:49:06 UTC]

P.S. This happened on my system which is a AMD64 arch. I don't know if this problem also happens on i686 systems or not.

Perhaps someone can emerge OpenVPN 2.3.2 on a amd64 arch, and see if it fails on the configure phase or not...

Thank you.

[Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2014-02-24 00:58:32 UTC]

1) Please attach the entire build log to this bug report.
2) Please post your `emerge --info' output in a comment.

[Comment 3 Adam Gergely 2014-02-24 22:41:20 UTC]

OK,

1. "emerge --info":
-------------------

infosky ~ # emerge --info
Portage 2.2.7 (hardened/linux/amd64, gcc-4.7.3, glibc-2.17, 3.10.25-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.10.25-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_Processor_3200+-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:     1405040 total,     27152 free
KiB Swap:     996024 total,     88064 free
Timestamp of tree: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 23:30:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.2
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p45
dev-lang/python:          2.7.5-r3, 3.2.5-r3, 3.3.3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.9
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.23.2
sys-devel/gcc:            4.7.3-r1
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2
sys-devel/make:           3.82-r4
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.17
Repositories: gentoo
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/rc.d /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/wget"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j2 "
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --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="acl amd64 apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri gdbm hardened iconv justify maildir mmx modules multilib mysql ncurses nptl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre perl php5 png postgres readline session slang snmp sse sse2 ssl tcpd unicode urandom winbind xml xml2 xtpax zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" 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 ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev glint intel mach64 mga nouveau nv r128 radeon savage sis tdfx trident vesa via vmware dummy v4l" 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, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON

infosky ~ #

2. The complete build log:
--------------------------
I'm sorry, but I cannot post the build log as this problem happened a while ago, and I was able to successfully build openvpn after reinstalling net-tools or iproute2 (I can't remember which of them).

But, as I said before, I remember that the error message was present in the configure phase and was something like: "ip utility required but missing" or "route utility required but missing" and emerge failed. I had both the iproute2 and the net-tools packages installed.

I periodically (based on an update protocol) update my servers, but because this is a production server, I can only update it under certain conditions.
My next update will be in April 2014.
If the error reappears at the next world update, I shall post more info here.

Until than, I don't know what to say... perhaps try to emerge openvpn yourself, on an amd64 arch, and see if the error appears...

Thank you.