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From: Robert Bridge <robert@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug?
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 22:45:15
Message-Id: 1209681912.15258.22.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: re-appearance of `waiting for lock' bug? by Alan McKinnon
1 On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 23:21 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > I've seen similar messages a few times on my boxes recently, but each
3 > time the emerge got going again after a short while. So I never really
4 > bothered finding out exactly what is going on.
5
6 I believe portage recently switched to using parallel-fetch by default,
7 which causes a similar message to appear if the build thread catches up
8 with the fetch thread. In this situation, it is, essentially, harmless,
9 and is just a message to say "I haven't died".
10
11 Rob.

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