From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16329 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2004 02:43:59 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 28 Sep 2004 02:43:59 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CC7yA-0006yn-HF for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Sep 2004 02:43:58 +0000 Received: (qmail 974 invoked by uid 89); 28 Sep 2004 02:43:58 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9894 invoked from network); 28 Sep 2004 02:43:57 +0000 Message-ID: <4158D012.4000502@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 22:44:34 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anthony Gorecki CC: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200409262142.25247.anthony@ectrolinux.com> <200409272214.51215.vapier@gentoo.org> <200409271934.00785.anthony@ectrolinux.com> In-Reply-To: <200409271934.00785.anthony@ectrolinux.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 2.0.51 comments/questions X-Archives-Salt: dd1fc8f5-3373-4189-9459-22bee11b3fcf X-Archives-Hash: 1171f820901960abdabfb76ecd07f95d Anthony Gorecki wrote: > On Monday 27 September 2004 7:14 pm, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>latest .51 has been getting a lot of lock work; update to rc6 and see if >>it's fixed > > > Unfortunately, I can't upgrade portage-- or anything else. Every emerge > request fails with a locking error. > > I'll revert to a local distfiles directory later tonight, which will hopefully > solve the problem until the locking issues are resolved. > > Run the emerge, then in another terminal (while portage is still running), rm /usr/portage/distfiles/.lock/* That should let it proceed. Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list