[gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Greetings, gentoo-users,

I see a problem with emerge on my notebook.

Whenever I try to emerge something, it starts off like:

# emerge -1 libsexy
Calculating dependencies... done!
>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 to /

and then just hangs there, doing nothing.

It doesn't even generate load on the CPU or something, it just hangs and
doesn't continue or finish (and is hard to kill ...).

This is independent of the pkg emerged, at least until now it happened
with every pkg I tried to emerge, also with "world".

I tried to clean the ccache, disable ccache, clean out /var/tmp/portage,
and for sure I did some fresh eix-sync ... nothing helped so far.

I tried to find something in the list-archives, in forums etc. but still
couldn't find anything helpful.

The system is up-to-date, I run updates every few days.

I would be thankful for any help on this.

Thanks in advance, Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[felix]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:01:26PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:

> Whenever I try to emerge something, it starts off like:
> 
> # emerge -1 libsexy
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> >>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
> 
> >>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 to /
> 
> and then just hangs there, doing nothing.
> 
> It doesn't even generate load on the CPU or something, it just hangs and
> doesn't continue or finish (and is hard to kill ...).
> 
> This is independent of the pkg emerged, at least until now it happened
> with every pkg I tried to emerge, also with "world".

I have this happen with some specific packages which think it wise and
necessary to prompt the operator with a configuration question and
THEN WAIT FOR AN ANSWER!

It annoys me so much that I use ps -el to find the offending program
and kill it and let the config fail, and then I cross that package off
my list.  It has only happened two or three times, and I guess either
someone else complained and it was fixed, or I didn't need the package
enough to ever miss it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

felix@crowfix.com schrieb:

> I have this happen with some specific packages which think it wise and
> necessary to prompt the operator with a configuration question and
> THEN WAIT FOR AN ANSWER!

But it would wait for an answer than on my other machines as well, which
it doesn't.

Thanks, Stefan
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[Zac Medico]

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Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> Greetings, gentoo-users,
> 
> I see a problem with emerge on my notebook.
> 
> Whenever I try to emerge something, it starts off like:
> 
> # emerge -1 libsexy
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
> 
>>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 to /
> 
> and then just hangs there, doing nothing.

That's right where it attempts to obtain a lock on the required
files in ${DISTDIR}. If that's on nfs and nfs isn't behaving
properly then it can cause problems like that. Check dmesg.

Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Zac Medico schrieb:
> Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>> Greetings, gentoo-users,
> 
>> I see a problem with emerge on my notebook.
> 
>> Whenever I try to emerge something, it starts off like:
> 
>> # emerge -1 libsexy
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>>> Verifying ebuild Manifests...
>>>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 to /
>> and then just hangs there, doing nothing.
> 
> That's right where it attempts to obtain a lock on the required
> files in ${DISTDIR}. If that's on nfs and nfs isn't behaving
> properly then it can cause problems like that. Check dmesg.

Correct, my ${DISTDIR} is normally mounted via nfs.
When I umount it, I can emerge ...

When mounted, dmesg gives me

lockd: cannot monitor ${IP_OF_NFS_SERVER}
lockd: failed to monitor ${IP_OF_NFS_SERVER}

What can I do to fix this? Restarting the nfs-service on the server did
not help yet.

Thanks a lot, Stefan

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[Zac Medico]

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Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>>>>>> Emerging (1 of 1) x11-libs/libsexy-0.1.11 to /
>>> and then just hangs there, doing nothing.
>> That's right where it attempts to obtain a lock on the required
>> files in ${DISTDIR}. If that's on nfs and nfs isn't behaving
>> properly then it can cause problems like that. Check dmesg.
> 
> Correct, my ${DISTDIR} is normally mounted via nfs.
> When I umount it, I can emerge ...
> 
> When mounted, dmesg gives me
> 
> lockd: cannot monitor ${IP_OF_NFS_SERVER}
> lockd: failed to monitor ${IP_OF_NFS_SERVER}
> 
> What can I do to fix this? Restarting the nfs-service on the server did
> not help yet.

There are also nfs services that you need to run on the client side.
 Maybe you need to do something like this:

emerge --noreplace nfs-utils
rc-update add nfs default
/etc/init.d/nfs start

If both client and server side services are running correctly then
should just work.

Zac
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Zac Medico schrieb:
> There are also nfs services that you need to run on the client side.
>  Maybe you need to do something like this:
> 
> emerge --noreplace nfs-utils
> rc-update add nfs default
> /etc/init.d/nfs start
> 
> If both client and server side services are running correctly then
> should just work.

Hmm, I don't have "nfs" running on any of my other boxes (only
"nfsmount") and the nfs-mounted DISTDIR worked for a long time ...

Anyway, I did what you recommended and now "emerge" runs fine.

Might be that the reboot of the NFS-server also helped a bit.

Thank you, Stefan
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge stalls - what to do ?

[felix]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 07:11:02PM +0200, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> felix@crowfix.com schrieb:
> 
> > I have this happen with some specific packages which think it wise and
> > necessary to prompt the operator with a configuration question and
> > THEN WAIT FOR AN ANSWER!
> 
> But it would wait for an answer than on my other machines as well, which
> it doesn't.

Maybe not, if the config is different, perhaps some library missing or
something.  I have never investigated mine enough to know, I was so
aggravated.  And it has happened so rarely that I doubt it's your problem.

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