[gentoo-amd64] tar/bzip2 not working in chroot

[gentoo-amd64] tar/bzip2 not working in chroot

[Christian Aistleitner]

Hello,

I am running an 2005.0 amd64 gentoo on my machine. Somehow the update from  
udev-059 to udev-062 broke my system (Does not populate /dev with devs for  
my SATA drives). But this is not about udev -- I just want to describe how  
I came across the tar problem.

However, I booted from 64bit Gentoo minimal 2004.1 CD (using the emachine  
kernel).
mounted my drives
mounted proc
tried emerge =sys-fs/udev-059
no error message and nothing else happened after
>>> Unpacking udev-059.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/udev-059/work

so I aborted. I tried to untar manually. Same effect. Just nothing  
happens. The program does not abort or anything. CPU was idleing. Load was  
almost zero.

I exited from the chroot and tried to untar. Everything worked.
So i could finally recover my system by
untaring outside of the chroot and then ebuilding within the chroot.

After booting into my recovered system, I can untar the files and emerge  
again.

Now the big question ... What is wrong vith the tar/bzip2 in my chroot?

The udev-059.tar.bz2 file of course resided in my distfiles directory.
Within and without the chroot I used the same udev-059.tar.bz2 file.
The portage directory is on a local reiserfs 3.6 disk.

Best regards,
Christian

Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4,  
glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4-r1, 2.4.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.10
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r7
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config  
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp:///ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/  
http://gentoo.inode.at/  
ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/  
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo"
LINGUAS="de"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/download/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi  
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo bzip2 cdb cdr cjk  
crypt ctype cups curl dbus dga dio doc dvd dvdr eds emacs encode esd evo  
exif fam ffmpeg flac font-server foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gb gd  
gdbm gif gmp gnome gnutls gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconf icq  
imagemagick imap imlib jabber java javascript joystick jp2 jpeg junit ldap  
lesstif libwww lirc lm_sensors lzw lzw-tiff mad maildir matrox mcal mikmod  
mime mng motif mp3 mpeg msn mule mysql mysqli ncurses nls nocd nptl  
offensive ogg openal opengl oscar oss pam pda pdflib perl plotutils png  
posix ppds python quicktime readline recode samba sdl slang sndfile  
sockets speex spell ssl svg sysvipc tcpd tetex tidy tiff truetype  
truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales v4l v4l2 vorbis wmf  
xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xpm xrandr xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib linguas_de  
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] tar/bzip2 not working in chroot

[Simon Stelling]

Hi,

Many packages do strange things when /dev/zero or /dev/null is not
present, perhaps that's it? (just a wild guess) You could make an strace
of them and try to find something unusual.

Regards,

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Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead
blubb@gentoo.org
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] tar/bzip2 not working in chroot

[Christian Aistleitner]

Hello Simon,

thank you for your answer.

> Many packages do strange things when /dev/zero or /dev/null is not
> present, perhaps that's it? (just a wild guess)

I tried mounting the /dev of the install cd to the /dev of the chroot.  
This did not resolve the problem.

> You could make an strace
> of them and try to find something unusual.

I did not try an strace yet. I'll probably do it as soon, as I encounter  
the problem again.

Best regards,
Christian
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