| Summary: | less and jless exit with status 1 | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Frank Green <frankjr> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers> |
| Status: | RESOLVED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | x86 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Have you recently updated glibc or something? Have you tried emerging less again? What do "echo $LESS" and "echo $LESSOPEN" return? Also, does /usr/bin/lesspipe.sh exist? I believe I have determined this to be a kernel bug. I downgraded from 2.6.9-nitro2 back to 2.6.8.1-nitro6 and it fixed my problem. Will try vanilla 2.6.9 to see whether the problem exists in the kernel itself or in the patchset. bad kernel... The solution to this problem can be found on the website for less. http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/#linux269 Apparently, it is definitely a bug in the kernel; upgrading udev supposedly will fix this problem. |
When I try to use less or jless, it bails out immediately and returns with status 1. The only time it does work is if I use it by itself ("less" or "jless" at the shell, no pipes or files attached to it), where it prints out "Missing filename ("less --help" for help)". Doing a "less --help", passing it a filename, or piping text to it does not work. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try "less --help" or "less README" or "echo hello | less" Actual Results: Exited with status 1 Portage 2.0.51-r2 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-nitro2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-nitro2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.2 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.4.3-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-tbird -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main /usr/local/fluidportage/trunk /usr/local/bmg-gnome" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups encode esd f77 foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 guile imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib"