Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] weird portage errors
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 18:12:33
Message-Id: 20120820151852.GX84847@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] weird portage errors by Fabian Groffen
1 On 20-08-2012 17:09:07 +0200, Fabian Groffen wrote:
2 > On 10-08-2012 10:58:52 +0100, Alan Hourihane wrote:
3 > > After emerging the latest portage and emerging packages, I'm seeing this
4 > > after a successful completed install....
5 > >
6 > > >>> Completed installing cvs-1.12.12-r9 into
7 > > /j/var/tmp/portage/dev-vcs/cvs-1.12.12-r9/image/
8 > >
9 > > /usr/lib/portage/bin/helper-functions.sh: line 75: mj_control_fd: File
10 >
11 > I get on OpenIndiana now:
12 >
13 > * redirect_alloc_fd failed
14 >
15 > which looks similar to your error, but investigations pending...
16
17 Ok, this turns out to be redirect_alloc_fd doing something that only
18 works on Linux to find a free file descriptor, it seems. At least it
19 fails hard on Solaris, so it needs bash 4.1 at least, because there this
20 is a bash built-in, which /does/ seem to work correctly.
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23 --
24 Fabian Groffen
25 Gentoo on a different level

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