[gentoo-dev] The Red Star

[gentoo-dev] The Red Star

[Greg Corcoran]

Hi,

I have just experienced the "Red Star" trying to emerge ALSA on one of
my Gentoo systems.

The "Red Star" problem has the following symptoms:

1. An emerge is executed
2. The package is downloaded if required
3. The checksum is calculated
4. A mysterious red star "*" appears and nothing further happens

I'm running portage 2.0.33 with GCC 2.95.3 and have read about other
people having this problem emerging ALSA, Nvidia drivers and OpenOffice.

My guess is that there might be a new bug somewhere in Portage 2.0.33. I
have read some people have seen this in 2.0.32.

Does anyone have any insights to what is going on? I'm not a coding
expert but I can certainly help out with testing.

TIA

Greg

Re: [gentoo-dev] The Red Star

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 09:53, Greg Corcoran wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just experienced the "Red Star" trying to emerge ALSA on one of
> my Gentoo systems.
> 
> The "Red Star" problem has the following symptoms:
> 
> 1. An emerge is executed
> 2. The package is downloaded if required
> 3. The checksum is calculated
> 4. A mysterious red star "*" appears and nothing further happens
> 
> I'm running portage 2.0.33 with GCC 2.95.3 and have read about other
> people having this problem emerging ALSA, Nvidia drivers and OpenOffice.
> 
> My guess is that there might be a new bug somewhere in Portage 2.0.33. I
> have read some people have seen this in 2.0.32.
> 

Not entirely portage (actually, not at all).

> Does anyone have any insights to what is going on? I'm not a coding
> expert but I can certainly help out with testing.
> 

Yeah.  Will think of the proper fix now.


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa