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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Help! - I cannot emerge anything any more
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2014 01:45:22
Message-Id: lonr2d$1p3$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Help! - I cannot emerge anything any more by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 06/27/2014 01:59 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I am in a very strange situation where I cannot emerge anything any more.
5 > Since it occurs on two different machines it won't be a hardware problem.
6 >
7 > When I try to emerge a package, say portage, it builds it just fine and
8 > starts to install it (for portage, the last file shown is etc/etc-update.conf)
9 > but then it hangs forever - no CPU / no IO. It looks as if it has locked itself out.
10 > This is even with a single package emerge.
11 > The only interesting things which are shown by lsof are
12 >
13 >
14 > emerge 1747 root mem REG 0,16 46678298 /usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache (path dev=0,18)
15 > emerge 1747 root 0u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
16 > emerge 1747 root 1u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
17 > emerge 1747 root 2u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
18 > emerge 1747 root 3w REG 8,17 1491 38217 /var/log/slim.log
19 > emerge 1747 root 4u a_inode 0,9 0 21 [eventpoll]
20 > emerge 1747 root 5r FIFO 0,8 0t0 91938 pipe
21 > emerge 1747 root 6uW REG 0,30 0 97094 /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/.portage-9999.portage_lockfile
22 > emerge 1747 root 7w FIFO 0,8 0t0 91938 pipe
23 > emerge 1747 root 8r FIFO 0,30 0t0 91946 /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-9999/.ipc_in
24 > emerge 1747 root 10u CHR 5,2 0t0 1127 /dev/ptmx
25 > emerge 1747 root 11u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
26 > emerge 1747 root 12w REG 0,30 282954 91945 /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-9999/temp/build.log
27 >
28 >
29 > Yes, I've tried to remove anything from /var/tmp/portage and the problem persists after reboot.
30
31 :( I'm replying only because no one else has.
32
33 You didn't say when the problem began. The problem started on the same day on
34 both machines? You could try qlop -l to see what packages have updated recently.
35
36 Does "portage-9999" mean you're running the unstable/development version of portage?
37 The ebuild for portage-9999 lists a git repository, so you might be able to check
38 out a previous (working) version of portage using git?