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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:30:07
Message-Id: loom.20081023T181706-325@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater broken by "Arttu V."
1 Arttu V. <arttuv69 <at> gmail.com> writes:
2
3
4 > run python-updater with several "-v" options?
5
6 Here's what I get:
7
8
9 Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 :
10 check "soname" enabled.
11 check "pylibdir" enabled.
12 check "eclass" disabled.
13 check "manual" enabled.
14
15 <then it hangs>
16
17 > - Maybe the disks or filesystems have some problems or bit-rot after
18 > having possibly been powered on 24/7 for a long time? Has there been
19 > power outages? Voluntary fsck time!
20
21 It's on a high quality UPS. The Hard drive may have problems, but, I see
22 no evidence of this. All else compiles and it runs fine, for long
23 periods of time with no problems. The HD is less than 13%
24 full....
25
26
27 > - Has something happened to your scanelf? emerge -1 pax-utils
28
29 I did the 'emerge -1 pax-utils' and
30 when I launch python-updater scanelf runs fine as I watch it
31 via top.
32
33 When python-updater actually starts up, that's when the load goes
34 to 3 or 4 and it just sleeps (as seen in top).
35
36
37 > - I'd guess eselect python complaining like above is probably just
38 > normal, unless you're supposed to have eselect-python package
39 > installed (many systems probably don't and you say your system is sort
40 > of minimal anyway?)
41
42 Correct, eselect-python is not installed, so it should not run.
43 I saw this in a bugs.gentoo.org thread and thought it might help.
44 I do not think I even need this? (no python whiz here).
45
46
47 > - Does anything unusual appear in /var/log/messages or other logs?
48
49 nope, just cron and syslog messages. Nothing out of the ordinary....