[SOLVED]: Error install (gentoo) in setup_mta(): makeuserdb returns error 255!

[pgentoo]

Here's the debug output from the setup process, starting with entering the setup_mta() method:

DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: setup_mta(), msg: Ending...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: setup_po(), msg: Starting...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command_rs(), msg: Starting...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command_rs(), msg: Ending...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command_rs(), msg: Starting...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command_rs(), msg: Ending...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command_rs(), msg: Starting...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command_rs(), msg: Ending...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command(), msg: Starting...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command('/bin/cp -p /etc/ispcp/courier/userdb /etc/ispcp/courier/working'), msg: Ending...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command(), msg: Starting...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command('/bin/cp -p /etc/ispcp/courier/userdb /etc/courier/authlib'), msg: Ending...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: setfmode(), msg: Starting...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: setfmode(), msg: Ending...
DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command(), msg: Starting...

DEBUG: push_el() sub_name: sys_command(), msg: ERROR: External command '/usr/sbin/makeuserdb' returned '255' status !
DEBUG: pop_el() sub_name: sys_command(), msg: ERROR: External command '/usr/sbin/makeuserdb' returned '255' status !
ERROR: External command '/usr/sbin/makeuserdb' returned '255' status !




ispcp ~ # ls -la /usr/sbin/makeuserdb
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3272 Mar 22 16:15 /usr/sbin/makeuserdb



Running this alone doesn't show any errors:

ispcp ~ # /usr/sbin/makeuserdb

ispcp ~ #




Anyone have any ideas?

[pgentoo]

Sorry, this is for SVN Revision 1072

[pgentoo]

Anyone have any ideas? I'm still stuck on this...

[joximu]

No idea.

Maybe you have to go through the makeuserdb programm - it's perl AFAIK...

/J

[pgentoo]

I know there are some other gentoo users out there...

Is anyone else getting this error on the latest svn? Maybe my courier install is completely hosed, but i just wanted to confirm other people were able to get past this before wiping it out and redoing it.

Please let me know.

[Zothos]

i had similar issues with gentoo + ispcp + courier. So i switched to dovecot XD

[pgentoo]

It turns out that /usr/sbin/makeuserdb is dependent on gdbm support. I added "gdbm" to my use flags and rebuilt courier-imap as well as courier-authlib.

Running an strace against makeuserdb, before i saw it returning the 255 error code.

Now it returns a welcomed 0.

After this change ispcp-setup runs end to end.