From: Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange alarm signal
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:03:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F29B6B2.5040404@asyr.hopto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F29ACC6.70208@gmail.com>
on 02/01/2012 11:21 PM Matthias Krebs wrote the following:
> On 02/01/2012 10:05 AM, Thanasis wrote:
>> Has anyone ever seen the following strange behaviour?
>> While updating the system with emerge, after each installation of a
>> package, before it starts emerging the next one, it pauses for a minute
>> or two, then displays "alarm signal" (without the quotes) on a new line,
>> and continues to emerging the next package.
> Hi Thanasis,
>
> this message is from emerge /portage:
> grep -r "alarm signal" /usr/lib64/portage/*
> Binary file /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/exception.pyo matches
> Binary file /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/exception.pyc matches
> /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/exception.py: raise
> AlarmSignal("alarm signal",
>
> This one matches your one minute:
> /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/elog/mod_mail_summary.py:
> AlarmSignal.register(60)
>
> Look like a timeout during mail sending to me. You have probably elog
> mail sending configured in make.conf and your mailserver is borked.
>
You were right. I hadn't configured the /etc/mail/aliases file.
Thanks !
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2012-02-01 9:05 [gentoo-user] strange alarm signal Thanasis
2012-02-01 21:21 ` Matthias Krebs
2012-02-01 22:03 ` Thanasis [this message]
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