Bug#524745: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#524745: Postinst seems to run forever on mipsel

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Rafael Laboissiere said:
> * Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@ftbfs.de> [2009-04-21 21:17]:
> 
> > here some more infos:
> > 
> > 21029 ?        S      0:00      \_ sh -c /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/apt-get 
> > --purge -o 
> > Dir::State::status=/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable/var/lib/dpkg/status 
> > -o DPkg::Options::=--root=/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable -o DPkg::R
> > 21030 ?        S      0:03          \_ /usr/bin/apt-get --purge -o 
> > Dir::State::status=/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable/var/lib/dpkg/status 
> > -o DPkg::Options::=--root=/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable -o 
> > DPkg::Run-Directory=/ho
> > 22519 pts/0    Ss+    0:00              \_ /usr/bin/dpkg 
> > --root=/home/buildd/build/chroot-unstable --force-confold --status-fd 14 
> > --configure libmagic1 file gettext-base libkeyutils1 libkrb5support0 
> > libk5crypto3 libkrb5-3 libgss
> > 23967 pts/0    S+     0:00                  \_ /bin/sh -e 
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/octave3.0.postinst configure 
> > 23976 pts/0    R+   1987:42                      \_ octave-3.0.5 --silent 
> > --no-history --no-init-file --eval pkg ('rebuild');
> > 
> > strace -p 23976
> > ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> > ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> > ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> > ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> > ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> > ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> > ioctl(0, TIOCNXCL, {0x1000 /* B??? */ -opost -isig -icanon echo ...}) = 0
> > [...] runs infitive
> 
> Thanks for the info.  Is the hanging due to some file Octave is trying to
> open/read/close?  Could you please run lsof on the octave-3.0.5 process
> and post the results?  In the case above, it would be:
> 
>     lsof -p 23976

The process has been killed, so we no longer have that information for
you.
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