On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +0000, Mick wrote: > >> This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was > >> rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. > > > > At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it > > just stops responding to keyboard and mouse, and the network > > interface stops receiving packets so I can't ssh in from another box > > to shut it down neatly. It's BRS time. > > No I couldn't. :-( > > The whole system would freeze up, no keyboard, no network, no nothing. > I had to pull the plug every time.
Not even Alt-SysRq? That's a serious lockup. You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. -- Neil Bothwick Drop your carrier .. we have you surrounded
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