On 02/09/2011 12:36 PM, Brian Evans - Postfix List wrote: > On 2/9/2011 11:33 AM, Reid Thompson wrote: >> sending mail with mutt started failing yesterday with: >> postdrop: fatal: getrlimit: Operation not permitted >> sendmail: warning: command "/usr/sbin/postdrop -r" exited with status 1 >> sendmail: fatal: rthompso(303): unable to execute /usr/sbin/postdrop -r: >> Success >> >> I'm running gentoo, and tend to keep my system up to date daily. >> I'm not sure what update may have affected this. >> Can anyone point me toward a solution, or a debug path? > > This was one symptom caused by updating glibc to 2.13 > (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354041) > > There seems to be a lot of issues with glibc 2.13, particularly on > 32-bit x86 and especially if using prelink. > Is this your case as well? > > The prelink topic is pretty hot right now in the Gentoo/ArchLinux world: > <http://psykil.livejournal.com/340806.html>http://psykil.livejournal.com/340806.html > <http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2011/02/watch-out-for-issues-with-prelink-and.html>http://phajdan-jr.blogspot.com/2011/02/watch-out-for-issues-with-prelink-and.html > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353814 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-863297-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html
ah - that may very well be it -- i'm actually running master glibc at the moment
