[gentoo-user] No longer getting elog messages

[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
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p5
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r1, 3.1.2-r2
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1
sys-apps/openrc:     0.6.1-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.3
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.33
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -msse4 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2 -msse4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://192.168.1.15/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac aalib acl acpi alsa amd64 apm audiofile berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib cups cxx dbus dri dvd dvdr dvdread exif ffmpeg flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glib glitz gnutls gpm hal iconv imlib ipv6 jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms libcaca libnotify libwww logrotate lzma mad mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl plasma png ppds python qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl semantic-desktop session smp sndfile spell spl sql sqlite sse sse2 sse3 sse4 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcl tcpd tiff tk truetype type1 udev unicode usb vorbis webkit x264 xine xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="hp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv vesa nvidia" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 04/24/2010 05:40 AM, 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.

Can you post the output of "df -i"?  Free space is only one 
consideration.  The other is free inodes.

[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel this for now.

[billyd]

On Friday 23 April 2010 22:02:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 04/24/2010 05:40 AM, 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.
> 
> Can you post the output of "df -i"?  Free space is only one
> consideration.  The other is free inodes.

Thanks for the reply, Nikos.

Running df -i showed the following on this Gentoo install:
 
Filesystem          Inodes        IUsed        IFree     IUse%    Mounted on
rootfs                1038352    325350    713002   32%     /
/dev/root         1038352    325350    713002    2%        /
rc-svcdir             765382            70    765312     1%   /lib64/rc/init.d
udev                  765382        1608    763774     1%   /dev
shm                    765382              1     765381    1%   /dev/shm
/dev/sdc1            20080            42      20038     1%   /boot
/dev/sdc12       1770720         825   1769895    1%   /home

On this install, my root partition is /dev/sdc11 which is 17 GB and contains 
/var.  I have /home on a separate partition.

My other 2 installs have /var on separate partitions of 9 GB.  The IUse% on 
those partitions is 4%.  So I should have plenty of inodes available.

Thanks again for the reply. I need to run more tests here. If I determine this 
really is a problem and it persists, I will re-post for more help.

Cheers,

billyd 

[gentoo-user] Re: No longer getting elog messages - Please cancel - Issue (Non-issue) resolved.

[billyd]

Special thanks to Alan and Nikos for offering help.

This morning I came up with a great idea for a test. I decided to re-emerge a 
package that I know always logs a message to /var/log/portage/elog.

The package was nvidia-drivers, and after the emerge completed, I checked 
/var/log/portage/elog and the expected message was there!

So, it appears my system is working properly.  I apparently just went through 
a period of time during which none of the packages brought in by emerge -uNDv 
world had any messages that needed to be logged.

Sorry for the apparent unnecessary post. Sure is embarrassing, but I continue 
to learn and you guys gave some new things to try in the future.

Grateful for the suggestions,

billyd

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

-- 
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