Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stuck after dovecot upgrade

[Neil Bothwick]

On Thu, 21 May 2020 06:44:35 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote:

> recently emerge started to get stuck after an upgrade of dovecot, and
> it is somehow related to my /etc/portage/bashrc, which has the
> following content: function post_pkg_postinst() {
>     if test "$CATEGORY/$PN" = "dev-db/mariadb"; then
>         /etc/init.d/mysql status && /etc/init.d/mysql restart
>     elif test "$CATEGORY/$PN" = "www-servers/apache"; then
>         /etc/init.d/apache2 status && /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>     elif test "$CATEGORY/$PN" = "net-mail/dovecot"; then
>         /etc/init.d/dovecot status && /etc/init.d/dovecot restart
>         echo 'going to sleep'
>         sleep 5
>         echo 'finished sleeping'
>     elif test "$CATEGORY/$PN" = "mail-mta/postfix"; then
>         /etc/init.d/postfix status && /etc/init.d/postfix restart
>     elif test "$CATEGORY/$PN" = "net-misc/openssh"; then
>         /etc/init.d/sshd status && /etc/init.d/sshd restart
>     fi
> }
>
>
> I restart dovecot after an upgrade, in the same way as I restart e.g.
> postfix. However for dovecot emerge gets stuck and does not continue
> and is sitting there quietly (killable only via `pkill -9 emerge`).

I can confirm this. I tried your bashrc (nice idea by the way, I normally
manually run needrestart after an update) and the dovecot install
completed but then hung. The next step is to add set +x to bashrc to see
where the hang occurs.


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Neil Bothwick

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