On 04/22/2018 01:13 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I've been NFS-exporting the portage treee from a 32-bit atom box to a chroot 
> on my workstation, and it's worked well for years, if slowly.
> 
> Now when I try to do the same with a 64-bit celeron machine I'm having a 
> problem getting portage to work. If the required distfile is already present, 
> no problem, but otherwise, trying to fetch it just hangs. No errors, no 
> status, no fetch log, no progress.
> 
> Www-client/links works in the chroot as expected, so the network is set up 
> all 
> right; portage just can't use it.
> 
> I've compared /etc/exports on the two clients; also the chroot setup scripts, 
> /usr/portage permissions, the USE flags of nfs-utils and everything else I 
> can 
> think of. All identical apart from obvious things like 32/64 bits and network 
> names and IPs. Google hasn't helped either.
> 
> Any ideas, anyone?
> 

Generally, this would indicate a problem resolving DNS.  This is
normally caused by not having a correct /etc/resolv.conf inside the
chroot (it generally will need to be the same as the file outside the
chroot).

Jonathan Callen

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