On 06/18/13 16:57, Stroller wrote:
On 18 June 2013, at 16:00, Joseph wrote:
Every time I compile a package I get a message:
sendmail: warning: inet_protocols: disabling IPv6 name/address support: Address
family not supported by protocol
1. Could you post the output of `grep -i mail /etc/make.conf` please?
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.
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.
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.
Googling the message suggests that your mailer might be Postfix:
http://www.google.com/search?q=sendmail:+warning:+inet_protocols:+disabling+IPv6
If so, the second hit looks promising: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/70962
Stroller.
Update.
Putting: inet_protocols = ipv4 in main.cf
and it help the message no longer appears.
According to postifix "inet_protocols = ipv4" is a default option but I could not find it
anywhere "inet_protocols" in main.cf.
What surprises me is that this only happens on my x86 machine my other amd64 is
not effected by it.
--
Joseph
