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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything
Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:08:41
Message-Id: 4D2759DC.7050607@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything by Simon
1 Simon wrote:
2 > Hi there,
3 > something went wrong during a previous update and now revdep-rebuild
4 > will kind-of freeze around 30%. When it freezes like that, the
5 > hosting company shows one of it's CPU core is used at 100% non-stop
6 > and the rest is idle. I have tried `emerge -e world` and with system,
7 > they all fail similarly.
8 >
9 > I managed to reconfigure it to have a working console and started
10 > the `emerge -e system` from the console. After a while it froze, but
11 > typed a ctrl-z to suspend the process, then %% to resume it and it
12 > "unlocked" it. It often hung like in between two phases of the emerge
13 > process (like after unpacking source, or just before doing the
14 > install, etc). I was able to resume the emerge like that a good dozen
15 > times until now, and now it's really locked, not responding at all...
16 > seems like all 4 cores are used at 100%.
17 >
18 > It hung while emerging perl and I've included the output on the
19 > console below so you can see exactly where it hung. I will now force
20 > a reboot on it and retry emerging just perl, I will reply to the list
21 > with my results of that.
22 >
23 <<SNIP>>
24
25 Have you enabled python3 by any chance? eselect python list should show
26 2.6 as the active python.
27
28 Just a thought. Someone else did this the other day and had troubles.
29
30 Dale
31
32 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] VPS has issues emerging everything Simon <turner25@×××××.com>