After emerging sendmail all attempts to build access.db are unsuccessful: makemap hash access < /etc/mail/access access.db: Invalid type 5 specified makemap: error opening type hash map access: Invalid argument sendmail is 8.14.2-r2 , compiled with following USE flags: "ldap mailwrapper mbox sasl ssl tcpd -ipv6 -nis -sockets" Berkeley db is 4.8.24 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge sendmail 2. Create simple text file /etc/mail/access (For example, it contains one string: Connect:127.0.0.1 RELAY) 3. makemap hash access < /etc/mail/access Actual Results: access.db: Invalid type 5 specified makemap: error opening type hash map access: Invalid argument Expected Results: make access.db binary file. Portage 2.1.7.6 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.2, glibc-2.11-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5520_@_2.27GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:00:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4, 3.1.1-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.5.2-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.64 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.2, 1.11 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo-mirror.spb.ru/ http://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-distfiles/ http://gentoo-mirror.spb.ru/ " LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j24" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl amd64 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv jpeg mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre perl png pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd tiff unicode xorg 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon mga vga" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I also ran into the same problem here with my gentoo server after updating to sendmail 8.14.4. After some investigating I found that the latest sys-libs/db-4.8.24 seems to be the cultrip. After removing 4.8.24 and rebuilding sendmail with sys-libs/db-4.7.25_p4 everything seems to work again. Here I simple did: (1) added "=sys-libs/db-4.8.24" to /etc/portage/package.mask (2) emerge --unmerge =sys-libs/db-4.8.24 (3) emerge sendmail After that procedure everything worked again. So somehow sendmail doesn't like 4.8.24 of the berkeley db.
please retry with 8.15.2-r2
