Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge difficulty.

On Nov 2, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Mike Williams wrote:

> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 20:39, Michael A Rowley, MD wrote:
>
>> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>  >>> emerge (1 of 6) net-www/apache-2.0.54-r31 to /
>>
>> and then nothing... for ever... let this sit over night, and still
>> nothing... wtf!?!?!?  this was working.
>>
>
> I've had similar happen to me on a few occasions.
> The first time when it didn't do anything in quite a while (minute
> or two) I
> re-ran the same command with debug (and possible under strace).
> Emerge would
> do its stuff then print "set +x" and hang.

Yup, never thought of doing a --debug...  this is what I got..

...stuff deleted
++ find /var/tmp/portage/apache-2.0.54-r31 -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ rmdir /var/tmp/portage/apache-2.0.54-r31
+ true
+ set +x


Exiting on signal 2

finally had to break with a ctl-c


> I think I eventually tracked it down to waiting on random data.
> Try copying some data in or out of the machine, preferable over a
> non-encrypted medium, or some fairly heavy disk i/o (emerge sync,
> emerge
> metadata, du -s), if you're logged in locally to the machine bash the
> keyboard and move the mouse a lot, to generate some entropy while
> waiting for
> emerge to do something.

I am not sure why this would do anything, but id does make for an  
interesting event.  I recently had to pull the monitor off the server  
to replace a workstation.  I usually ssh into the server anyway, so  
no loss.  But can't really sit at the server now.  May need to move a  
monitor back.

Why in the hell would doing the above fix the problem?  wierd.  I  
need to do some research to see what "set +x" does.  Read the man  
page, but still kind of scratching my head.

Any other ideas?
M


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