Re: [gentoo-user] Can't fetch distfiles in chroot

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 09:43:35 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 April 2018 06:13:30 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I've been NFS-exporting the portage treee from a 32-bit atom box to a
> > chroot on my workstation, and it's worked well for years, if slowly.
> >
> > Now when I try to do the same with a 64-bit celeron machine I'm having a
> > problem getting portage to work. If the required distfile is already
> > present, no problem, but otherwise, trying to fetch it just hangs. No
> > errors, no status, no fetch log, no progress.
> >
> > Www-client/links works in the chroot as expected, so the network is set up
> > all right; portage just can't use it.
> >
> > I've compared /etc/exports on the two clients; also the chroot setup
> > scripts, /usr/portage permissions, the USE flags of nfs-utils and
> > everything else I can think of. All identical apart from obvious things
> > like 32/64 bits and network names and IPs. Google hasn't helped either.
> >
> > Any ideas, anyone?
>
> Never mind. I've rebuilt the chroot from stage 3 and it seems to be working
> fine.

The appearance was deceptive; all the distfiles needed must have been present 
already. Today, one wasn't and the fetching process hung and had to be killed.

So, again, what could possibly prevent portage from seeing the network inside 
a chroot, while other programs use it just the same as always?

-- 
Regards,
Peter.