This issue happend after a 'emerge -uDN world' after I had not done any updates for a bit over 60 days. (I was just too busy)
I already have: sys-apps/portage-2.1.9.25 and I don't have smartctl, what pkg is it in? I'm not sure it will give valid info though as this is a VPS and everything is XENified. My root device is /dev/xvda to give you an idea... But I did run an fsck, a pretty thorough one like fsck.ext3 -c -c -f or something like that... I also added another option that made it super verbose, so I don't know if anything was found, just that *filesystem was modified* by it... I just did the following emerge, these packages had not been recompiled by the emerge -e system that crashed. They all compiled top shape, but the problem doesn't happen on every package, so it's hard to tell... emerge app-shells/bash sys-apps/util-linux sys-fs/e2fsprogs dev-lang/python sys-apps/portage sys-apps/baselayout sys-fs/udev sys-apps/busybox I will redo a simple fsck.ext3 -c -c -f /dev/xvda and see what it says exactly (if it says anything). And then i will --sync and -e @system again... I'll reply to the list with my results... Thanks, Simon On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Simon <turne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I re-emerged perl and it hung a few lines above my previous issue I >> copied in prev email. But I was able to ctrl-z+%% to unfreeze it. >> I'm not sure what to do now since the problem is still there... >> >> I'm not sure what critical package deal most with the ability to check >> for dependencies (revdep-rebuild was freezing, this one froze while >> finding dependencies)... if anyone has a guess, I'll try rebuilding >> that pkg and the winner gets a genuine 100$ of monopoly money. >> >> Simon >> > > emerge -e @system > > needs to be able to determine dependencies. I think it doesn't get > much more basic than that. > > What version of portage are you using? > > Portage itself gets emerged pretty late in the emerge -e @system > process on my machine. You might try: > > 1) emerge portage > 2) rm /usrportage/distfiles/* > 3) eix-sync (or emerge --sync I guess) > 4) emerge -fe @system > 5) emerge -e @system > > Also, smartctl -a /dev/sda > > your drive and see if there are errors getting reported. > > > - Mark > > c2stable ~ # emerge -pe @system > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild R ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3-r1 > [ebuild R ] virtual/libintl-0 > [ebuild R ] dev-libs/expat-2.0.1-r3 > [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20100924 > [ebuild R ] virtual/libiconv-0 > [ebuild R ] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6 > [ebuild R ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.2.1 > [ebuild R ] dev-libs/gmp-4.3.2 > [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.4.1 > [ebuild R ] app-misc/mime-types-8 > [ebuild R ] app-arch/cpio-2.11 > [ebuild R ] sys-devel/autoconf-wrapper-10-r1 > [ebuild R ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2010l > [ebuild R ] sys-apps/tcp-wrappers-7.6-r8 > [ebuild R ] sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0 > [ebuild R ] 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perl-core/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.27.03 > [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.01-r1 > [ebuild R ] perl-core/Module-Build-0.36.07 > [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Authen-SASL-2.15 > [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.36 > [ebuild R ] dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-1.35 > [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.01 > [ebuild R ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.7 > c2stable ~ # > >