Re: [gentoo-user] trying to do world update and dev-util/trace-cmd hangs

[John Covici]

On Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:10:08 -0500,
John Covici wrote:
>
> Hi.  When trying to do a world update things get stuck at  the
> folowing
>
> >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-util/trace-cmd-3.1.4::gentoo
>  * trace-cmd-v3.1.4.tar.gz BLAKE2B SHA512 size ;-) ...
>  [ ok ]
>   * Determining the location of the kernel source code
>    * Found kernel source directory:
>     *     /usr/src/linux
>      * Found sources for kernel version:
> 	 *     5.10.155-gentoo
> 	  * Checking for suitable kernel configuration options ...
> 	   [ ok ]
> 	   >>> Unpacking source...
> 	   >>> Unpacking trace-cmd-v3.1.4.tar.gz to
> 	   /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/trace-cmd-3.1.4/work
> 	   >>> Source unpacked in
> 	   /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/trace-cmd-3.1.4/work
> 	   >>> Preparing source in
> 	   /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/trace-cmd-3.1.4/work/trace-cmd-v3.1.4
> 	   ...
> 	   >>> Source prepared.
> 	   >>> Configuring source in
> 	   /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/trace-cmd-3.1.4/work/trace-cmd-v3.1.4
> 	   ...
> 	   >>> Source configured.
> 	   >>> Compiling source in
> 	   /var/tmp/portage/dev-util/trace-cmd-3.1.4/work/trace-cmd-v3.1.4
> 	   ...
> 	   make -j1
> 	   BUILD_OUTPUT=/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/trace-cmd-3.1.4/work/trace-cmd-3.1.4_build
> 	   prefix=/usr libdir=/usr/lib64 CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> 	   AR=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-ar
> 	   BASH_COMPLETE_DIR=/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
> 	   etcdir=/etc NO_UDIS86=1 VERBOSE=1 NO_PYTHON=1 trace-cmd
> 	   and the compile just hangs, so I cannot continue with the
> 	   update or even emerge by itself.  skip-first says nothing to
> 	   resume.
>
>
> Any ideas of how o proceed would be appreciated.

As a work around, I masked off that package version -- lets see what
happens.

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