glibc-2.9_p20081201 seems to have changes in the popen function call in such a way that it is causing postgresql's internal version checking to fail. Specifically I have tested it with postgresql-server-8.3.5. The initdb executable and the pg_ctl executable called by emerge --config and the the init.d script respectively, are failing saying they cannot find the "postgres" executable in the appropriate directory. This error message is false however, as it actually does find the executable, but is not receiving the information it wants when it tries to run postgres -V in a popen function and is instead receiving a NULL value. I don't know if this is how glibc is going to behave in the future and postgres needs to change their code, or if it's an unintentional bug caused by the recent code changes in glibc's popen function, but the end-user is left in a bad situation. I'm not sure how many other packages are affected by the same popen issue, but there was atleast one other in the database so far. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install glibc-2.9_p20081201 2. Try starting postgresql-8.3 or doing a post installation --config 3. Actual Results: starting postgresql or creating the initial database environment fails Expected Results: start postgresql or properly create the initial database environment Perhaps as a side note, glibc ebuild maintainers my want to put in some kind of iknowwhatimdoing USE flag so users can force a downgrade of glibc without editing the ebuild; should something unwanted occur like this.
Thanks for the report; please post your 'emerge --info', and then we can ask the toolchain team to have a look.
I've reverted back to glibc-2.7-r2 so that I can run postgresql, but otherwise here is my emerge --info: Portage 2.2_rc17 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.27-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:05:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p48 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.6-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r8 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.3.0-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r3 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse3 -mssse3 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -mpopcnt -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/eselect/postgresql /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -msse3 -mssse3 -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -mpopcnt -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfpermsstrict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi aim alsa amd64 apache2 berkdb bzip2 cdr cjk clamav cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr fam fastcgi ffmpeg firefox flac gd gdbm gif gimp glutgnutls gpm gtk iconv imlib isdnlog jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos lame ldap libnotify matroska midi mikmod mime mmap mmx mng motif mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly odbc ogg openal opengl openmp oscar pam pch pcre pdf perl php png postgres ppds pppd pythonqt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba sasl sdl session sharedext slp smp snmp sockets sox speex spell spl sse sse2 sse3 sse4 sse4.1 sse4.2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcl theora threads tiff timidity tokenizer truetype unicode usb vnc vorbis x264 xcomposite xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid yahoo zlib" 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" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="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 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" APACHE2_MPMS="event" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
The Description is a bit vague (and so is the Summary).
What would you like clarified?
rather than describe things at a high level, please post the actual C code that is being run ...
reinstalled glibc-2.9_p20081201 again for more testing, and this time the bug was no longer preset. I must've had something wrong with my last glibc build that caused it to fail. Chaninging bug to invalid
it's a real issue, but a dupe
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 250342 ***
