Re: [gentoo-user] plasma-desktop-5.12.4 build process hangs

[P Levine]

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 2:55 PM, R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Elijah Mark Anderson <mark@××××××.name>
> wrote:
> > On Thursday, April 19, 2018 12:23:32 PM CDT Mick wrote:
> >> On Thursday, 19 April 2018 14:44:40 BST Elijah Mark Anderson wrote:
> >> > A friend has commissioned me to install Gentoo on one of their
> machines
> >> > for
> >> > them. I'm trying to run some final updates before I turn it back over
> to
> >> > them, but it keeps hanging on plasma-desktop-5.12.4 after linking
> >> > kcm_fontinst.so (see attachment).
> >> >
> >> > Anyone know what's going wrong? Is this just a bug in the ebuild,
> maybe?
> >>
> >> Your log shows no error.  I had a look for bug reports, but couldn't
> find
> >> anything relevant.  If it reports no error, have you waited long enough
> for
> >> the emerge to complete?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards,
> >> Mick
> >
> > Sorry about the late reply. Life got a little busy for a bit there. I no-
> > longer have the machine in question. But a few days later, the owner of
> the
> > machine tried syncing the mirrors and updating again, and it went
> through.
> >
> > I would certainly hope I waited long enough... considering that when I
> tried
> > again, I left it running all night just in-case. lol. Thanks for trying.
> :)
> >
>
> This is what happened for me. Plasma was experiencing errors, I lost
> interest, I tried again, plasma was not experiencing build errors.
> Works for things besides Plasma as well!
>
> Open source has taught me patience on the span of years. I wish it
> were not necessary, of course.
>
> Cheers,
>      R0b0t1
>
>
​Or, it could be the fact that ​the patch and solution to the problem I
posted to this very thread was applied downstream:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/diff/?id=4b2a7ee17866dd768651b51cd6640f39506a8469.
That might have saved you some time.