[gentoo-amd64] chroot emerges hang

[Will Briggs]

G'day all,

I'm having an interesting issue with emerge's done in my x86 chroot. 
Emerge any package and it will build correctly until it gets to the 
section "man:" where is tries to gzip man pages.  It will then hang 
until a Ctrl-C it to stop.

For instance, emerging bash ends with:

make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/bash-3.1_p16/work/bash-3.1/po'
 >>> Completed installing bash-3.1_p16 into 
/var/tmp/portage/bash-3.1_p16/image/

man:
gzipping man page: rbash.1
gzipping man page: bashbug.1
gzipping man page: bash.1
gzipping man page: builtins.1
info:
fixing GNU info symlink: bashref.info.gz
gzipping GNU info page: bash.info

... and then hangs.

It doesn't seem to be gzip hanging (a ps ax | grep gzip gives no result 
while the hanging is taking place).  An strace seems to show that the 
hang happens at about the same time scanelf is used but that may not be 
relevant (or I may have read it incorrectly)

I've emerged various versions of portage obtained by using quickpkg on a 
nother (x86) box and have tried them.

I've tried with and without sandbox in FEATURES.

A lot more delving into what's going on to do - but wondered if anyone 
else had had this issue or could advise on steps to take next to 
diagnose the exact issue.

Appreciate it,

Will.

emerge --info
Portage 2.1_pre6-r6 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 
2.6.16-gentoo-r1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r1 i686 unknown
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) 
[disabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5, 2.4.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.17
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -march=athlon-xp"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config 
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf 
/etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer -march=athlon-xp"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms 
strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://batman/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowext X aalib alsa apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts 
cli crypt ctype cups curl dba dri eds emboss encode esd expat fastbuild 
foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect ftp gd gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hal imlib 
isdnlog jpeg lcms libg++ libwww mbox memlimit mikmod mmx mmx2 mmxext 
motif mp3 mpeg ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis opengl 
pam pcre pdflib perl png posix ppds pppd python qt quicktime readline 
real sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd 
tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis wmf xml 
xsl xv xvid zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_ati 
video_cards_fglrx"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, 
LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY


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