[gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken
Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org writes: Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. # bash -x /usr/sbin/python-updater Simple enough: snip + CATPKGVER==sys-apps/man-pages-2.78 + [[ 0 = 2 ]] + [[ CHECK_PYLIBDIR -ne 0 ]] + grep -qe '/usr/\(include\|lib\(32\|64\)\?\)/python2.4' /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/man-pages-2.78/CONTENTS + [[ CHECK_SONAME -ne 0 ]] ++ scanelf -qBN libpython2.4.so.1.0 +++ grep -e '^obj' /var/db/pkg/sys-apps/man-pages-2.78/CONTENTS +++ cut '-d ' -f2 I have already (twice) emerged scanelf (pax-utils 0.1.17). Remember the system only has 128 meg of ram on a P3 (coppermine) machine. Here are the USE flags: USE= -X pic ncurses ssl crypt berkdb tcpd pam perl python php postgres apache2 \ readline bzip2 nptl nptlonly syslog sse mmx hardened gif gpm hal dvd jpeg \ socketspm3 mpeg png spell udev unicode v4l v4l2 win32codecs ral x264 tiff \ usb mjpeg mng snmp wmf pdf dbus wmp mp4 jpeg2k gs -kde -gtk -gnome thoughts or ideas? James
[gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info? syntax suggestions? strace --help will show you commands as well. Working too late at night... Strace is not install on the minimalistic server, but, I have man pages on other machines... I'll give it a whirl James
[gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken
Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org writes: Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info? syntax suggestions? The machine hoses everytime I run python-update. # eselect python list !!! Error: Can't load module python Probably because there is no eselect module for python installed (there isn't one on any my machines). Right, so now I installed it and it says: Available python interpreters: [1] python2.4 [2] python2.5 * So why does python-updater have to be used at all? Everything else seems fine James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 3:38 PM, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org writes: Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info? syntax suggestions? The machine hoses everytime I run python-update. Weird, it has a man page on my system. Have you got strace installed at all? dev-util/strace strace --help will show you commands as well.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 20:38 +, James wrote: Albert Hopkins marduk at letterboxes.org writes: Perhaps you can run strace (or bash -x) on it to see where it's hanging. Oh, I would not know the syntax. No man page for strace. more info? syntax suggestions? The machine hoses everytime I run python-update. Probably no man page because it's likely not installed. # emerge strace But the generic way of running it is # strace python-updater # eselect python list !!! Error: Can't load module python Probably because there is no eselect module for python installed (there isn't one on any my machines). Right, so now I installed it and it says: Available python interpreters: [1] python2.4 [2] python2.5 * So why does python-updater have to be used at all? Everything else seems fine The python-updater and eselect module do completely different things. All the eselect module probably does is update a symlink: /usr/bin/python = python2.5. What python-updater is supposed to do is take all the packages that were emerged against python2.4 and re-emerge them agains python2.5. Basically what it does is identify all the files in /usr/lib/python-oldversion/site-packages, associates them with packages and re-emerges those packages. It's a shell script so running: # bash -x /usr/sbin/python-updater should give you some indication as to where it's hanging. Hope this helps. -a
[gentoo-user] Re: python-updater broken
Arttu V. arttuv69 at gmail.com writes: run python-updater with several -v options? Here's what I get: Starting Python Updater from 2.4 to 2.5 : check soname enabled. check pylibdir enabled. check eclass disabled. check manual enabled. then it hangs - 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! It's on a high quality UPS. The Hard drive may have problems, but, I see no evidence of this. All else compiles and it runs fine, for long periods of time with no problems. The HD is less than 13% full - Has something happened to your scanelf? emerge -1 pax-utils I did the 'emerge -1 pax-utils' and when I launch python-updater scanelf runs fine as I watch it via top. When python-updater actually starts up, that's when the load goes to 3 or 4 and it just sleeps (as seen in top). - 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?) Correct, eselect-python is not installed, so it should not run. I saw this in a bugs.gentoo.org thread and thought it might help. I do not think I even need this? (no python whiz here). - Does anything unusual appear in /var/log/messages or other logs? nope, just cron and syslog messages. Nothing out of the ordinary
