On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Michael Yang wrote:

> hi guys,
>
> I'm on FreeBSD-7.2 x86 and have had to mask >portage-2.2.00.14200,  
> specifically:
>
> portage-2.2.00.14487
> portage-2.2.00.14555
>
> This is due to emerge/ebuild hanging for a long time, usually with the
> "checking XXX.tar.gz..."  Running 'top' indicates that python2.6 is
> stuck in ttywait, most likely in ebuild.sh.  This runs for about 5
> minutes before a successful emerge proceeds.  This does not happen on
> Linux-x86 with the same portage versions.  Since I'm no expert at
> emerge/ebuild/portage, I was wondering if any one was noticing this
> same behavior or could replicate it.
>
> -mike

Hi,

iirc according to truss it hangs in portage.__init__._test_pty_eof()  
when writing 'test_string = 2 * "blah blah blah\n"' to the terminal.  
If you make that method just return True the delay vanishes. Portage  
still seems to work then.

   -- Heiko