man/info iptables produces garbage

[techcode]

Hi all - very new to Gentoo and Linux (which you can probably assume from number of my posts). But playing around with Perl for several years (the reason for switching to Linux) and running all web apps I wrote on Linux type OS seem to help.

I got one of those VPS's - and also installed latest gentoo (from LiveCD 2006.0 - kernel linux-2.6.17-gentoo-r4) on my old computer so I could play around.

In trying to configure for better security I wanted to install/enable iptables. So as ussual I typed in "emerge iptables". After all is finished I realised that I also need to re-configure/compile the kernel to enable the support for it. I did it by following the guide from the gentoo wiki - and while computer is still compiling it (old PII 400 Mhz) I tried to see the man page. Obviosly this is my first try at configuring/compiling the kernel - probably not going to work as wiki is for 2.6.16 and menues changed.

alex@old-junk / $ man iptables

This produces lot's of error messages and then presents me with a man page containing only garbage.

alex@old-junk / $ info iptables
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (out): 0x080b2668 ***
Aborted

alex@old-junk / $ iptables --version
-bash: iptables: command not found
alex@old-junk / $ su
Password:
old-junk / # iptables --version
iptables v1.3.5

old-junk / # emerge -pv iptables

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] net-firewall/iptables-1.3.5-r1 USE="ipv6 -extensions -static" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB

=== Trying to get error msg from man ==
old-junk / # man iptables 2>error.txt

[1]+ Stopped man iptables
old-junk / # nano error.txt

==> error.txt content <==
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 3
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 2
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 4
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 5
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 7
<standard input>:4: warning: can't find character with input code 6
<standard input>:4: warning [p 1, 0.0i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:4: warning [p 1, 0.2i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:4: warning [p 1, 0.3i]: cannot adjust line
<standard input>:4: warning [p 1, 0.5i]: can't break line
... and total of 137 lines ...


Any ideas of what is wrong? Also let me know if you need any other info ...

Thanks.

[kallamej]

I have iptables-1.3.5-r1 installed and there are no problems with e.g. 'man iptables'.
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[abester]

Are you sure you've picked the correct arch and compile settings? It looks like a whole bunch of apps just don't work. Your PII probably doesn't support the latest extensions etc.

[Janne Pikkarainen]

Sounds like completely wrong CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf.
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