Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:01:26PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> Whenever I try to emerge something, it starts off like:
>
> # emerge -1 libsexy
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> >>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
>
> >>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 to /
>
> and then just hangs there, doing nothing.
>
> It doesn't even generate load on the CPU or something, it just hangs and
> doesn't continue or finish (and is hard to kill ...).
>
> This is independent of the pkg emerged, at least until now it happened
> with every pkg I tried to emerge, also with "world".

I have this happen with some specific packages which think it wise and
necessary to prompt the operator with a configuration question and
THEN WAIT FOR AN ANSWER!

It annoys me so much that I use ps -el to find the offending program
and kill it and let the config fail, and then I cross that package off
my list.  It has only happened two or three times, and I guess either
someone else complained and it was fixed, or I didn't need the package
enough to ever miss it.

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