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On 06/18/13 16:57, Stroller wrote: |
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>On 18 June 2013, at 16:00, Joseph wrote: |
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>> Every time I compile a package I get a message: |
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>> sendmail: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address support: Address family not supported by protocol |
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>1. Could you post the output of `grep -i mail /etc/make.conf` please? |
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>2. Could you show us some relevant output indicating the status of the "ipv6" USE flag on your system, please? Please show us all packages installed with it activated. |
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>I don't have an uptodate Gentoo system handy right now, so I'm not immediately sure the best way to perform that latter. There must be something cleaner and faster than `emerge -ep world | grep -i ipv6`, probably something in Gentoolkit. |
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>You get the message when you compile packages, and the error message begins with "sendmail" - this makes me think you have portage configured (in your make.conf) to send you its output by email (the ewarn, eerror &c messages), and that it is your mailer which is giving this warning. |
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>Googling the message suggests that your mailer might be Postfix: http://www.google.com/search?q=sendmail:+warning:+inet_protocols:+disabling+IPv6 |
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>If so, the second hit looks promising: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/70962 |
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>Stroller. |
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Update. |
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Putting: inet_protocols = ipv4 in main.cf |
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and it help the message no longer appears. |
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According to postifix "inet_protocols = ipv4" is a default option but I could not find it anywhere "inet_protocols" in main.cf. |
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What surprises me is that this only happens on my x86 machine my other amd64 is not effected by it. |
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Joseph |