Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 07/16/2014 09:32:31 AM, Dale wrote: >> I tried this. I unpacked the stage3 tarball just like I would for a new >> install, in /mnt/gentoo of course. I set it up just enough to where I >> could try and emerge glibc and just see if it would complete or if it >> would fail. It failed. It seems to me that while it may be complaining >> about the kernel version, something else is really the issue. I'm using >> the latest kernel so it can't be that. I also installed linux-headers >> and tried again, still failed. > > What kernel version are you using? > On one machine I have strange effects with kernel 3.15.x (including > 3.15.5) > Portage hangs. Attaching gdb to it one can see that hangs in the glibc > call > __epoll_wait_nocancel > called from pyepoll_poll from PyRun_FileExFlags > > Just stepping back to 3.14.12 solves the problem. > (I do have linux-headers-3.15 installed here) > > Helmut > > >
3.15.5-gentoo I got a different tarball, going to test that. If it fails, may step back a kernel version and see if that helps. It's faster than re-installing from scratch again. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
