[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

[billyd]

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Hi, all:

I used to get info, error and warn messages in /var/log/portage/elog after  
emerging packages or doing  emerge -uNDvp world.  Beginning about 2 weeks 
ago, I noticed I am no longer getting those elog entries.  Additionally, I 
noticed that I am getting duplicate entries for each package  that is emerged 
in /var/log/portage (of course, these are the compile logs).

I have Gentoo installed on 2 computers, both using arch ~amd64. All 3 
installations have KDE 4 (latest in portage for ~amd64 arch).

PC #1  uses this profile:  default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde
PC #2 has two installs:

	Install #1 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop
	Install #2 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib 

This problem is happening on all 3 of my Gentoo installations and all started 
at the same time.  The only changes have been through doing updates. I sync 
nearly every day followed my # emerge -uNDvp world. Other than issues with 
xorg-server 1.8.0 and the nvidia-drivers, all my updates have been successful. 

Note: I have masked xorg-server 1.8.0 in /etc/portage/package.mask until the 
nvidia-drivers catch up.

I have searched the forums, checked bugzilla and googled on this topic and 
have yet to find a solution.  My Gentoo installs are working just fine except 
for this issue.

I have attached /etc/make.conf from only one of the installs as they are all 
the same. Here are the 3 lines I have in my make.conf files as they relate to 
logging the elog messages:

PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

Thank you for the help.

billyd

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# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -msse4 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -msse4 -pipe"
# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing.
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
# These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the
# profile used for building.
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"
LINGUAS="en"

PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

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SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.15/gentoo-portage"
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Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 23 April 2010 19:12:45 billyd wrote:
> Hi, all:
> 
> I used to get info, error and warn messages in /var/log/portage/elog after
> emerging packages or doing  emerge -uNDvp world.  Beginning about 2 weeks
> ago, I noticed I am no longer getting those elog entries.  Additionally, I
> noticed that I am getting duplicate entries for each package  that is
> emerged in /var/log/portage (of course, these are the compile logs).

Have you checked the obvious things, like sufficient disk space in elog/ ?


What version of portage and python are you running?



> 
> I have Gentoo installed on 2 computers, both using arch ~amd64. All 3
> installations have KDE 4 (latest in portage for ~amd64 arch).
> 
> PC #1  uses this profile:  default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde
> PC #2 has two installs:
> 
> 	Install #1 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop
> 	Install #2 uses profile: default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib
> 
> This problem is happening on all 3 of my Gentoo installations and all
> started at the same time.  The only changes have been through doing
> updates. I sync nearly every day followed my # emerge -uNDvp world. Other
> than issues with xorg-server 1.8.0 and the nvidia-drivers, all my updates
> have been successful.
> 
> Note: I have masked xorg-server 1.8.0 in /etc/portage/package.mask until
> the nvidia-drivers catch up.
> 
> I have searched the forums, checked bugzilla and googled on this topic and
> have yet to find a solution.  My Gentoo installs are working just fine
> except for this issue.
> 
> I have attached /etc/make.conf from only one of the installs as they are
> all the same. Here are the 3 lines I have in my make.conf files as they
> relate to logging the elog messages:
> 
> PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage"
> PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error"
> PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
> 
> Thank you for the help.
> 
> billyd

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

[billyd]

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Thanks for the reply, Alan.

My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the 
partition where /var lives.

There are 2 versions of python installed but 2.6.5-r1 is the active one.
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r2

The Portage version is 2.1.8.3. 

I have attached results of my emerge --info for reference also. 

I am very perplexed about this especially since I had not made any changes to 
my systems.  Recall that this happened to all 3 of my Gentoo installs, not on 
just one. One install is on a different computer. The 2 on the same computer 
use different partitions.

I estimate the problem began about 2 weeks ago, but I can't be sure. I am 
aware that not all emerged packages generate error, log or warn messages. I 
just realized that nothing was being written to /var/log/portage/elog on any 
of my 3 Gentoo installs. Then I noticed that duplicate emerge logs were being 
written to /var/log/portage for each package that was emerge with # uNDv 
world.  I had never seen that before.

I suspect that some package that was emerged approximately 2 weeks ago has 
caused this change, but I still haven't found what has happened.  If this were 
only on one of my Gentoo installs, I would suspect something with that 
computer. But when I update with -uNDv world, I do it on all 3 the same day. 
Now all 3 have the same identical problem. 

For what it is worth, I am the only one with access to these computers so I 
know it is nothing I have done. I must have missed some message or warning.

Also, when I do the # emerge -uNDv world, and the emerge finishes, there are 
no errors reported in the Terminal - just a clean finish.

I have seen some posts on the forums about people having problems with this:

	PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail"

However, I don't use mail there - my entry in /etc/make.conf is:

	PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

I wonder if this could be a portage issue - maybe I should downgrade to a 
previous portage version.

This is all very strange to me.

Thanks again.

billyd

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Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11-r1, 2.6.33-gentoo-r1 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_920_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:15:03 +0000
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CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
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Re: [gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

[Alan McKinnon]

On Saturday 24 April 2010 04:40:55 billyd wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Alan.
> 
> My hard drive space is adequate with at least 50% space available on the
> partition where /var lives.
> 
> There are 2 versions of python installed but 2.6.5-r1 is the active one.
> dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r2
> 
> The Portage version is 2.1.8.3.
> 
> I have attached results of my emerge --info for reference also.

That all looks fine - I didn't really think that would be the problem, but one 
has to check ;-)

Do you have genlop installed? That will tell you what got updated about two 
weeks ago. Determine the most recent dated file in elog/ and adapt this 
command as appropriate:

genlop -l --date "8 Apr 2010" --date "12 Apr 2010"

Downgrade everything related one package at a time.

When you say you get duplicate files in /var/log/portage, do you mean they are 
identical in every way? I also get two files, but one is the build summary and 
the other is a complete detailed build log.

You are using unstable python and stable portage. You might want to upgrade to 
unstable portage to gain the benefits in the 2.2 branch

My system here works fine with the following software:

portage-2.2_rc67
python-2.6.5-r1
python-3.1.2-r2

$ grep LOG /etc/make.conf
PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log qa"
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"

> 
> I am very perplexed about this especially since I had not made any changes
> to my systems.  Recall that this happened to all 3 of my Gentoo installs,
> not on just one. One install is on a different computer. The 2 on the same
> computer use different partitions.
> 
> I estimate the problem began about 2 weeks ago, but I can't be sure. I am
> aware that not all emerged packages generate error, log or warn messages. I
> just realized that nothing was being written to /var/log/portage/elog on
> any of my 3 Gentoo installs. Then I noticed that duplicate emerge logs
> were being written to /var/log/portage for each package that was emerge
> with # uNDv world.  I had never seen that before.
> 
> I suspect that some package that was emerged approximately 2 weeks ago has
> caused this change, but I still haven't found what has happened.  If this
> were only on one of my Gentoo installs, I would suspect something with
> that computer. But when I update with -uNDv world, I do it on all 3 the
> same day. Now all 3 have the same identical problem.
> 
> For what it is worth, I am the only one with access to these computers so I
> know it is nothing I have done. I must have missed some message or warning.
> 
> Also, when I do the # emerge -uNDv world, and the emerge finishes, there
> are no errors reported in the Terminal - just a clean finish.
> 
> I have seen some posts on the forums about people having problems with
> this:
> 
> 	PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save mail"
> 
> However, I don't use mail there - my entry in /etc/make.conf is:
> 
> 	PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
> 
> I wonder if this could be a portage issue - maybe I should downgrade to a
> previous portage version.
> 
> This is all very strange to me.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> billyd

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com