Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Brian Harring <ferringb@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: confcache, final chance to ixnay it
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:46:20
Message-Id: 20060215094515.GG11279@nightcrawler.had1.or.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: confcache, final chance to ixnay it by Nagatoro
1 On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 10:40:09AM +0100, Nagatoro wrote:
2 > Brian Harring wrote:
3 > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Nagatoro wrote:
4 > >> Brian Harring wrote:
5 > >>> Specific merge list would be wonderful... ;)
6 > >> Just had one fail on me: media-libs/libsndfile-1.0.12-r1
7 > >> It hung right after configure.
8 > >
9 > > Specifics...
10 > >
11 > > Hanging isn't much detail here, 'specially since confcache hanging is
12 > > a new complaint. If it's a slow system, would wonder if it's not hung
13 > > as much spin it's wheels doing verification.
14 >
15 > Hung as in not doing anything noticeable and 0% CPU usage, in this
16 > state for > 5min (might have been longer). After this first "hang" no
17 > more emerges seemed to work, after a cache clean up (rm
18 > /var/tmp/confcache/*) still no emerges working. After a reemerge of
19 > confcache (might have been a reboot too) everything seems to be
20 > working again (even a reemerge of libsndfile).
21
22 Yay, first locking bug.
23
24 Need to rework that anyways, just noticed a nice little note in
25 flock's page regarding downgrading/upgrading releasing locks. :)
26 ~harring