From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432B0138A1F for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8AB1E09FC; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:16:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92CCCE09B4 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 08:16:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1WdbJK-000F9m-D4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:16:42 +0100 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] More emerge oddity in chroot Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:16:41 +0100 Message-ID: <2959693.OnEknlS8lT@wstn> Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.11.5 (Linux/3.12.13-gentoo; KDE/4.11.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140424210525.GA974@ca.inter.net> References: <5383625.3zvFPHoqv2@wstn> <20140424210525.GA974@ca.inter.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: dd762346-ac6e-4f54-a70c-eff20bdda65b X-Archives-Hash: f79e66df78645603b8ae9dcbe7d4c7b5 On Thursday 24 Apr 2014 17:05:25 Philip Webb wrote: > 140424 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm wearying of this chroot operation, and I must be sounding like a tyro. > > The other day emerge started hanging at the end of compilation, thus: > > # emerge -1 apache-tools > > -- details snipped -- > > >>>> Completed installing apache-tools-2.2.25 into /var/tmp/portage/app- > > -- details snipped -- > > >>>> Done. > > > > It never comes back from there, not even with a CTRL-C; > > I have to "kill -9" from another Konsole. > > Grepping ps for emerge (before the kill!) shows: > > 20749 pts/1 DN+ 0:03 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/emerge --nospinner -1 > > apache-tools > > Man ps says that the D means "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)" > > Is my hardware dying ? > > It looks like hardware : how old is it ? what is its record ? It's only 3 or 4 years old. Never given any trouble with Gentoo, though I never managed to install any other distro - whichever one it was it would always just stop responding to anything. Looks like time to revisit the BIOS settings. I prefer to stick with unadventurous defaults rather than playing around with core voltages, nanosecond timings etc. I've already checked all the hardware (and software) I can think of that would cause errors at only a single point, so it's firmware next. -- Regards Peter