Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:12:09
Message-Id: 20091014171127.GH16985@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alt] portage by Heiko Przybyl
1 On 14-10-2009 17:43:32 +0200, Heiko Przybyl wrote:
2 > On Oct 14, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Michael Yang wrote:
3 > > hi guys,
4 > >
5 > > I'm on FreeBSD-7.2 x86 and have had to mask >portage-2.2.00.14200,
6 > > specifically:
7 > >
8 > > portage-2.2.00.14487
9 > > portage-2.2.00.14555
10 > >
11 > > This is due to emerge/ebuild hanging for a long time, usually with the
12 > > "checking XXX.tar.gz..." Running 'top' indicates that python2.6 is
13 > > stuck in ttywait, most likely in ebuild.sh. This runs for about 5
14 > > minutes before a successful emerge proceeds. This does not happen on
15 > > Linux-x86 with the same portage versions. Since I'm no expert at
16 > > emerge/ebuild/portage, I was wondering if any one was noticing this
17 > > same behavior or could replicate it.
18 > >
19 > > -mike
20 >
21 > Hi,
22 >
23 > iirc according to truss it hangs in portage.__init__._test_pty_eof()
24 > when writing 'test_string = 2 * "blah blah blah\n"' to the terminal.
25 > If you make that method just return True the delay vanishes. Portage
26 > still seems to work then.
27
28 I guess this means openpty is also not working like expected on FreeBSD.
29
30
31 --
32 Fabian Groffen
33 Gentoo on a different level

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-alt] portage Michael Haubenwallner <haubi@g.o>