During a system update I tried to emerge qmail-1.03-rc15, emerge works fine until after the terminal displays "* Setting up the message queue hierarchy ..." and goes no further. A check or running processes shows that process for "tcprules tcp.qmail-smtp.cdb tcp.qmail-smtp.tmp < tcp.qmail-smtp" which is owned by "/bin/bash /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh postinst" which is owned by " /usr/bin/python -O /usr/bin/emerge qmail" is the problem. Unfortunatly I was unable to monitor the install for several hours and only discovered the problem after the tcprules process had been running for 7 hours and 9 minutes, and when I found the problem that process had 84.4% of the CPU! Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge qmail Actual Results: see details Expected Results: installed (at least I hope that is what it would have done) CPU is AMD XP 2100 1/2 GB ram Running processes: apache2 mysql webmin sshd courier-imap spamassassin freshclam openldap (and other system processes such as the logger and cron)
your tcp.qmail-smtp contains a syntax error somewhere. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90679 ***