140424 Peter Humphrey wrote: > I'm wearying of this chroot operation, and I must be sounding like a tyro. > The other day emerge started hanging at the end of compilation, thus: > # emerge -1 apache-tools -- details snipped -- >>>> Completed installing apache-tools-2.2.25 into /var/tmp/portage/app- -- details snipped -- >>>> Done. > It never comes back from there, not even with a CTRL-C; > I have to "kill -9" from another Konsole. > Grepping ps for emerge (before the kill!) shows: > 20749 pts/1 DN+ 0:03 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/emerge --nospinner -1 > apache-tools > Man ps says that the D means "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)" > Is my hardware dying ?
It looks like hardware : how old is it ? what is its record ? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
