On 14-10-2009 17:43:32 +0200, Heiko Przybyl wrote:
> 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.

I guess this means openpty is also not working like expected on FreeBSD.


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Fabian Groffen
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