Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: "Norman Rieß" <norman@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Scripts not working... HELP!
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:14:39
Message-Id: 4DB90552.5060104@smash-net.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Scripts not working... HELP! by Walter Dnes
1 Had similar symptoms as my default system python was not defined properly.
2 Use "eselect python list --python2" to see if that is the case.
3 Set it with "eselect python set --python2 <number>" if necessary.
4
5 Regards
6 Norman
7
8 Am 04/28/11 07:40, schrieb Walter Dnes:
9 > This message is coming from my 32-bit "hot backup" gentoo machine.
10 > For some reason, any script that I call on my 64-bit machine immediately
11 > returns to the command prompt. No warnings or error messages or
12 > diagnostics. Builtins and compiled executables work OK. For instance,
13 > if I have a script named "xyz" that goes like so...
14 >
15 > #!/bin/bash
16 > man bash
17 >
18 > ..., executing "xyz" or "~/bin/xyz" results in bash immediately
19 > returning to to the command prompt. If I type "man bash", it works OK.
20 > On top of everything else, getmail seems to go into "forkbomb mode",
21 > generating a gazillion processes, and eventually locking up the machine,
22 > if I type in...
23 > /usr/bin/getmail -v -v -v --rcfile rc_cotse
24 >
25 > It looks like the script is being totally ignored, e.g...
26 >
27 > waltdnes@i3 ~ $ emerge anyone home?
28 > waltdnes@i3 ~ $
29 >
30 > Any ideas what gives?
31 >