From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S9luS-0005ah-83 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:22:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D10BAE0BDF; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:22:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8481EE0B6B for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:20:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B954C80892 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:20:48 +0000 (GMT) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:20:47 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads Up - sys-apps/net-tools-1.60_p20120127084908 might break your system -- openvpn still fails Message-ID: <20120319232047.099608bf@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20120317154808.GA5250@crowfix.com> References: <1331541120.21555.0@numa-i> <20120317154808.GA5250@crowfix.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0cvs33 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/S6OxS14UR1=fguFp65sBoY8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 01771eea-ac61-4df9-9809-2bb4a6cbe69d X-Archives-Hash: cf306544e4b8e6d514b0809aad7c0309 --Sig_/S6OxS14UR1=fguFp65sBoY8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:48:08 -0700, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > This appears to help with eth0 etc, but my openvpn fails with >=20 > Linux ifconfig failed: could not execute external program >=20 > Leaving the sbin symlink in place fixes this. >=20 > I didn't see any gentoo bugs for this -- I can create a new one, but > is there another one related to the symlink that I should add this > note to? There is a bug, the "fix" is to re-emerge openvpn. Apparently openvpn has hardcoded paths for ifconfig and friends, which are set when it is compiled, based on the locations at the time. Re-emerging builds it with the new locations. --=20 Neil Bothwick Kludge: (v., adj., or n.) to fix a program in the usual way. --Sig_/S6OxS14UR1=fguFp65sBoY8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk9nv08ACgkQum4al0N1GQM5EACg2xLOLF2izZ2QpLTSFvXGTn/Y bfYAn3VjhgS2FyjiSukRW+S15m1BGsY+ =atp8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/S6OxS14UR1=fguFp65sBoY8--