On 02/09/2011 12:57 PM, Reid Thompson wrote:
> 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
>
sigh -- sorry --- noise -- i'm running master dev-libs/glib not glibc
I am running 2.13 glibc as of yesterday which does appear to coincide with my
issue
[D] sys-libs/glibc
Available versions: (2.2) [P]2.2.5-r10!s 2.5-r4!s **2.5.1!s 2.6.1!s
(~)2.7-r2!s 2.8_p20080602-r1!s 2.9_p20081201-r2!s
(~)2.9_p20081201-r3!s 2.10.1-r1!s 2.11.2-r3!s (~)2.11.3!s (~)2.12.1-r3!s
(~)2.12.2!s
{build crosscompile_opts_headers-only debug gd glibc-compat20
glibc-omitfp hardened multilib nls nptl nptlonly profile selinux vanilla}
Installed versions: 2.13(2.2)!s(10:18:20 AM 02/08/2011)(nls
-crosscompile_opts_headers-only -debug -gd -glibc-omitfp -hardened
-multilib -profile -selinux -vanilla)
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
Description: GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library
