From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsoSa-0003PI-EZ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:53:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 75196E0475; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f19.google.com (mail-gx0-f19.google.com [209.85.217.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41F70E0475 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk12 with SMTP id 12so467229gxk.10 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:53:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=nfNyhbU1XoZkG2yCokEjWyqBaSkh82InP7x22o7a/vU=; b=BvG2Oa2FlgSciRXjbihLTl2fMsUUdUJFihRHFjJBOgRzXi+ApiX/v+b5Gup1//Kkyw 2852rgXcTn1Zz+A5tWqY52+bTfrSyOLTRtjjNyeQkgDjJgEdl9kaOeVYZDp1hZ5ZXeYf 0cYV8vJxYxh6J64E85We1qMyjqhEHoIvb4hmM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=tL50RAo36S+q3fr1RhA2waL2VNMF/JxVF0sxoi6Xh8SKVbrni5IYmEcWwwhfUqOKea emyJpkk/PEAlQdx8c/yj9l1kVrjAD+ArhBCWf3u0p5WfNVjxx3Dws/jknHDFxJLFzPLJ g0a+P2jZER5Csso6XfbHXPGNt5S2IILqvbkdQ= Received: by 10.142.217.17 with SMTP id p17mr4698110wfg.97.1224723232425; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:53:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.52.10 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 03:53:47 +0300 From: "Arttu V." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python-updater broken In-Reply-To: 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-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: X-Archives-Salt: 9d38e1e0-04a0-48ac-8c3f-88a2a7091947 X-Archives-Hash: e0a1a20e4928a35a429d08de9babe859 On 10/23/08, James wrote: > Hello, > > One of my systems in an old Pentium III (Coppermine). > python-updater will not complete. It echoes one > line and then sits indefinately (for a day or more). ... > Here's what else happens: > > # eselect python list > !!! Error: Can't load module python > > > thoughts and ideas are most welcome. Some thoughts, not really informed, but trying to lure some better experts and ideas out: - Maybe you should run python-updater with several "-v" options? Maybe it will become more talkative? (See man page and/or the script itself) - Maybe the disks or filesystems have some problems or bit-rot after having possibly been powered on 24/7 for a long time? Has there been power outages? Voluntary fsck time! - Has something happened to your scanelf? emerge -1 pax-utils might fix some issues - I'd guess eselect python complaining like above is probably just normal, unless you're supposed to have eselect-python package installed (many systems probably don't and you say your system is sort of minimal anyway?) - Does anything unusual appear in /var/log/messages or other logs? -- Arttu V.