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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Help! - I cannot emerge anything any more
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:00:13
Message-Id: 1403859587.7344.0@numa-i
1 Hi,
2
3 I am in a very strange situation where I cannot emerge anything any
4 more.
5 Since it occurs on two different machines it won't be a hardware
6 problem.
7
8 When I try to emerge a package, say portage, it builds it just fine and
9 starts to install it (for portage, the last file shown is
10 etc/etc-update.conf)
11 but then it hangs forever - no CPU / no IO. It looks as if it has
12 locked itself out.
13 This is even with a single package emerge.
14 The only interesting things which are shown by lsof are
15
16
17 emerge 1747 root mem REG 0,16 46678298
18 /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache (path dev=0,18)
19 emerge 1747 root 0u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
20 emerge 1747 root 1u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
21 emerge 1747 root 2u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
22 emerge 1747 root 3w REG 8,17 1491 38217
23 /var/log/slim.log
24 emerge 1747 root 4u a_inode 0,9 0 21 [eventpoll]
25 emerge 1747 root 5r FIFO 0,8 0t0 91938 pipe
26 emerge 1747 root 6uW REG 0,30 0 97094
27 /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/.portage-9999.portage_lockfile
28 emerge 1747 root 7w FIFO 0,8 0t0 91938 pipe
29 emerge 1747 root 8r FIFO 0,30 0t0 91946
30 /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-9999/.ipc_in
31 emerge 1747 root 10u CHR 5,2 0t0 1127 /dev/ptmx
32 emerge 1747 root 11u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
33 emerge 1747 root 12w REG 0,30 282954 91945
34 /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-9999/temp/build.log
35
36
37 Yes, I've tried to remove anything from /var/tmp/portage and the
38 problem persists after reboot.
39
40 Has anybody seen something similar and where to search for the problem?
41
42 Many thanks,
43 Helmut

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