On 01/17/2016 09:06 AM, Brian Dolbec wrote: > > I've read in several forum posts lately about emerge not running and > the problem comes down to dead emerge processes and remaining lockfiles. > > Perhaps we should make an emaint module to search for and fix these. > It should be easy enough.
It would be nicer if we fixed whatever issue(s) cause the emerge processes to hang up. How would the emaint module distinguish a "good" emerge process from a "bad" one? I suppose you could strace it to see if it has any activity. -- Thanks, Zac
