I can't emerge Nagios! Please take pity on a loser.

[benca1]

Hiya,

I can't emerge nagios-plugins-1.3.0-beta3, which is one of the packages out of 12 or so that gentoo would like install as part of the 'emerge nagios' plan.

After the source is unpacked, it goes through the checking process (is that the make or configure command anyway?) and it just freezes here:

[avendesora]

Does it print anything else after that at all?
It's supposed to try out various ways of calling 'ping' after that step.
Is your network interface up at that point? (Can you ping 127.0.0.1?)

[benca1]

hi mseigneurin, thanks for the help.

eth0 is up and running, so is the loopback.. all network connectivity is working great. It doesn't print anything at all after that, it just freezes and pegs the processor at 100 percent until I kill it.

Any guesses?

[b_Q]

Hi
Had a similar problem, hope same
i.e.
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
1
Issued
echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
compiled plugins
then back to
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all
HIH
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[benca1]

b_Q, how you figure these things is beyond me. Is something a mere commoner is expected to know for godsakes!?

I made NO changes to my system except for a network recycle due to it mysteriously dropping and emergeing sendmail and it worked. I first checked the /proc file you suggested and it reflected '0'. So I just tried it again... and it didn't hang.

I hate mysteries like that. I don't know what changed what, but it looks like your suggestion would have worked, if it hadn't been done already.

I searched here and google for some help with this issue, it annoys me to not have had the benefit of know what fixed what.

Thanks much guys. Thank you b_Q!