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 3F7771384B4 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 07:58:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BFC521C0FF; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 07:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wm0-f50.google.com (mail-wm0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4260621C0F5 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 2015 07:58:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wmec201 with SMTP id c201so11299311wme.1 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:58:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=iZZT6HXjV0cfMHnbjtcGWPxgnCasKOuJ7HqeHmiV+Cs=; b=1GWIOUXFAMlNQemyZZVRG4MsrtOmXvHddQZVb+EUpQmmlsT6yelt85T9030rS3yJ+y aqO4N1EeyC0R3FG13YkwLEiHmfARRReL22rHOLnL0pRTgWawazsyl0BBh56OXe9uCSTj AYI5s1UecLpZSQSP7sPaQwVkuOHiyorkxK4Ts/LZUsSz8n5enK2YCnJmwd/cJpeHfjg+ gYL7EK+wzLznkf5j5YHPGAvgKzPS+zijQLdJRN7YGEI9cQl9BaY/wdwFM5AQAgimAovA VQuLjuXTY4u7wZPNI4tsDvMa8Fe/L4+/jlSdmuwKIihgp+N7iDnoTY0K174SETnigJKI 7NHw== X-Received: by 10.28.195.10 with SMTP id t10mr1921124wmf.11.1448524695231; Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:58:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.29.2.11] ([209.212.109.4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d2sm26743477wjy.16.2015.11.25.23.58.13 for (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 Nov 2015 23:58:14 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerging squid indefinitely To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <87oaekg3nz.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <56532FE3.1060708@gmail.com> <87d1v0e8be.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <5653931A.3000701@gmail.com> <87ziy3c9a2.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <20151124163238.00c00dbb@a6> <87mvu2co4z.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <5655E79E.4080403@gmail.com> <87y4dlbqni.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <5656BB91.9020705@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2015 09:58:09 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0 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 In-Reply-To: <87y4dlbqni.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2755138b-e629-4a14-a60e-43b6e8ee18d4 X-Archives-Hash: 3553320f9b1aeeb88057811c4aae1088 On 26/11/2015 01:33, lee wrote: > Alan McKinnon writes: > >> On 25/11/2015 13:30, lee wrote: >>> walt writes: >>> >>>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 23:39:01 +0100 >>>> lee wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> ... >>>> >>>> >>>>> Well, ok, the file is still locked. >>>>> >>>>> 'group-' looks like a backup, and 'group.lock' contains 10563, which >>>>> is the pid of groupadd. I'd think that's ok. >>>>> >>>>> So what all does it take to create a system group? I suppose I could >>>>> kill groupadd and the emerging might go on, though I wonder what the >>>>> problem might be and if something else besides making an entry to >>>>> /etc/group needs to be done. What might require an indefinite delay >>>>> here? >>>> >> [...] >>> I'll probably reboot today or tomorrow because I need to have a >>> differently configured kernel running to be able to do some traffic >>> shaping. If I do that, I'll probably just kill groupadd and see if the >>> merging continues. >> >> The group is already created so kill groupadd. One of three things will >> happen: >> >> 1. the emerge will continue. Do nothing >> 2. The emerge will fail with a groupadd error. Restart the emerge >> 3. Nothing will change. Kill the emerge and restart it >> >> If the lockfile persists after killing groupadd, delete it. > > Well, yes ... I just would like to know what the problem might be. > I doubt you'll ever find out. Something went wrong, a process hung and it's likely a once off. Deal with it, move on.