From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RsiIR-0001J5-Rv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:04:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87AC6E055D; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:04:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (cust-218-222.on4.ontelecoms.gr [92.118.218.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74001E07C9 for ; Wed, 1 Feb 2012 22:03:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (viper.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.1]) by viper.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B732B75 for ; Thu, 2 Feb 2012 00:03:30 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <4F29B6B2.5040404@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:03:30 +0200 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120112 Thunderbird/9.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange alarm signal References: <4F290059.8020106@asyr.hopto.org> <4F29ACC6.70208@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F29ACC6.70208@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1d8b812d-a498-4e1a-9c9e-1f089d0941fd X-Archives-Hash: f5ec3172981c62389740e2f777461013 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 !