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From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>
To: Gentoo User Mailing List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Looks like a nasty bug in portage .38
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:20:23
Message-Id: CAHgBc-sAhej8_1H_y4fRnrA6nfOqnn=nA=mN4+D7pdOpbspGiw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Looks like a nasty bug in portage .38 by Carlos Hendson
1 On Dec 26, 2012 3:05 AM, "Carlos Hendson" <skyclan@×××.net> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Mon, 2012-12-24 at 22:46 +0530, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
4 > > I'm on ~amd64. Updated portage in the morning.
5 > >
6 > > But it seems the .38 version has a nasty bug.
7 > > It freezes the system every single time I try to compile a cross tool
8 > > chain.
9 > >
10 > > I tried with various options, like reducing make jobs, etc, but didn't
11 > > help.
12 > >
13 > > Back to .31 and things seem to be moving better. Anyone else faced this?
14 >
15 >
16 > I've noticed a few freezes during emerges on my system in the last week
17 > or two.
18 >
19 > The system is currently building x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.8.4 and has had a
20 > series of freezes.
21 >
22 > Portage: sys-apps/portage-2.1.11.31
23 > Kernel: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.4.9
24 >
25 > dmesg produced an entry which may be related:
26 > [ 8003.626681] hrtimer: interrupt took 4376464 ns
27 >
28 > I haven't looked any further into the issue as yet, as I don't have the
29 > time available.
30 >
31 > While writing this email the system froze for 47 seconds with no new
32 > kernel messages. :/
33 >
34 > Regards,
35 > Carlos
36 >
37 >
38
39 I downgraded to the stable version (.36) and all problems about emerge
40 freezing have seem to be gone.
41
42 --
43 Nilesh Govindrajan
44 http://nileshgr.com