Ok, it actually just "froze" again after the output below... ///////////////////////////////////////////// >>> Emerging (42 of 151) sys-devel/autoconf-2.65-r1 * autoconf-2.65.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * Package: sys-devel/autoconf-2.65-r1 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: [email protected] * USE: elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86 >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking autoconf-2.65.tar.bz2 to >>> /mnt/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.65-r1/work * Applying autoconf-2.65-AC_TYPE_INT_T.patch ... [ ok ] >>> Source unpacked in /mnt/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.65-r1/work >>> Compiling source in >>> /mnt/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autoconf-2.65-r1/work/autoconf-2.65 ... * econf: updating autoconf-2.65/build-aux/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating autoconf-2.65/build-aux/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu --host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --program-suffix=-2.65 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking whether /bin/sh -n is known to work... yes checking for characters that cannot appear in file names... none checking whether directories can have trailing spaces... yes checking for expr... /usr/bin/expr checking for GNU M4 that supports accurate traces... /usr/bin/m4 checking whether /usr/bin/m4 accepts --gnu... yes checking how m4 supports trace files... --debugfile checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl checking whether /usr/bin/perl Fcntl::flock is implemented... yes checking for emacs... no checking for emacs... no checking where .elc files should go... ${datadir}/emacs/site-lisp checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed checking whether make is case sensitive... yes configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating tests/Makefile config.status: creating tests/atlocal config.status: creating man/Makefile config.status: creating lib/emacs/Makefile config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Makefile config.status: creating lib/Autom4te/Makefile config.status: creating lib/autoscan/Makefile config.status: creating lib/m4sugar/Makefile config.status: creating lib/autoconf/Makefile config.status: creating lib/autotest/Makefile //////////////////////////////////
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, the fsck reported nothing wrong... > I still got the same bug again... while doing `emerge -e @system`... > It got stuck right after the ">>> Installing" line below... > > Dale, I just checked my python version and it was already 2.6, i set > it to 2.6 again, just in case, and continued my emerge (the ctrl-z + > %% worked at this point). > > I'll reply here again with the next issue... > > Thanks, > Simon > > //////////////////////////////////////////////////////// >>>> Emerging (35 of 151) sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 > * Package: sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 > * Repository: gentoo > * Maintainer: [email protected] > * USE: elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU x86 >>>> Unpacking source... >>>> Source unpacked in /mnt/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4/work >>>> Compiling source in /mnt/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4/work >>>> ... >>>> Source compiled. >>>> Test phase [not enabled]: sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 > >>>> Install binutils-config-1.9-r4 into >>>> /mnt/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4/image/ category sys-devel >>>> Completed installing binutils-config-1.9-r4 into >>>> /mnt/tmp/portage/sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4/image/ > > ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/man > >>>> Installing (35 of 151) sys-devel/binutils-config-1.9-r4 > \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ > > > > > On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> Simon wrote: >>> >>> Hi there, >>> something went wrong during a previous update and now revdep-rebuild >>> will kind-of freeze around 30%. When it freezes like that, the >>> hosting company shows one of it's CPU core is used at 100% non-stop >>> and the rest is idle. I have tried `emerge -e world` and with system, >>> they all fail similarly. >>> >>> I managed to reconfigure it to have a working console and started >>> the `emerge -e system` from the console. After a while it froze, but >>> typed a ctrl-z to suspend the process, then %% to resume it and it >>> "unlocked" it. It often hung like in between two phases of the emerge >>> process (like after unpacking source, or just before doing the >>> install, etc). I was able to resume the emerge like that a good dozen >>> times until now, and now it's really locked, not responding at all... >>> seems like all 4 cores are used at 100%. >>> >>> It hung while emerging perl and I've included the output on the >>> console below so you can see exactly where it hung. I will now force >>> a reboot on it and retry emerging just perl, I will reply to the list >>> with my results of that. >>> >> >> <<SNIP>> >> >> Have you enabled python3 by any chance? eselect python list should show 2.6 >> as the active python. >> >> Just a thought. Someone else did this the other day and had troubles. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> >

