On Thursday 01 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ctrl-C to kill the emerge and > > rm /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/.udev-120.portage_lockfile > > Egad and how many times have done that in other situations... > > I tried emerge -vC udev followed by emerge -v udev > > No help > > Its just udev-120 that does this. > > Before seeing your post I backed up to udev-119 and went right thru. > So must still be something a little off there. > > However I emerged udev again and deleted the lock file as recommended > and 120 went right thru. > > 120 must be the first version that concerns itself with lock files.
I've seen similar messages a few times on my boxes recently, but each time the emerge got going again after a short while. So I never really bothered finding out exactly what is going on. You mentioned a reported bug earlier, do you have a link that describes it more? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- [email protected] mailing list
