Never mind, I found it. I had the userpriv flag in FEATURES, causing all compiles to run as the portage user.

Packages that require root during this stage should be blocked instead.

I would like to second that motion. I spent hours looking for this simple line. Admittedly, I set portage to ...

Worked perfectly, thanks for posting the link.

Basically, SquirrelMail seems to be copying portions of the email, multiple times, into the reply message. I replied to a one-line message, and the resulting reply message, when it finally displayed, was many, many pages long if paginated and printed. I mean MANY, MANY pages long.

Both work. I have tried each, and have had no errors either editing the ebuild directly or running the ebuild. I am, however, concerned that there were no updated config files dropped

Actually, it worked flawlessly for me. I should have added that I used the 1.8.6.13-r1 ebuild. Compiling in support for /dev/pts directly into the kernel did not help, unlike /dev/shm.

Also, and I didn't notice this last night, there are NO config files to be updated. I am assuming that running ...

Worked perfectly, thank you!

Do you have support for shm in your kernel? I am getting the same error as you, but on /dev/pts. I just checked, and I have no support for the filesystem in my kernel.

>>> /bin/mesg
>>> /bin/rc-status
>>> /bin/utmpdump
>>> /bin/lastb -> last
>>> /bin/wall
>>> /bin/last
--- /dev/
--- /dev/pts ...

There should be a shell script in your $PATH called wmaker.inst. It will set up your user files for WindowMaker to be used. Very handy.


i checked the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, and it has parameters that are not being executes, so one can assume it's not being called at all (such as multiple xterms ...