Can you attach with strace or gdb to see what the process is doing? If it does 
anything at all that is.

Francois

On 22/08/2013, at 20:30, "P Purkayastha" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Due to some change in my system sage no longer finishes compiling. This is 
> irrespective of whether it is sage-git or some released version. Usually it 
> is some tuning process that remains stuck for ever.
> 
> * At one point, it was atlas that was tuning for two whole days and never 
> finished (irrespective of whether I gave the ARCH as "base" or "Core2" or let 
> it decide by itself). A system installation of atlas finished compiling and 
> installing in 20 min. Thanks to Burcin, I have been able to use the system 
> atlas and tricked sage into continuing with the rest of the installation.
> 
> * Now, it is g2fx that is stuck for ever. It remains stuck at again a tuning 
> program that doesn't use any cpu and it will remain stuck like this for days 
> on end without any resolution. The log file of g2fx is attached and a 
> screenshot is attached which shows at which command it is stuck.
> 
> I am at a loss and I can't understand what exactly is impeding these tuning 
> processes. It is also a hindrance since I am unable to install any newer 
> version of sage on this particular machine, beyond what I had last compiled 
> (sage-5.11.beta3):
> model name    : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU          6400  @ 2.13GHz
> 
> If anyone can let me know how I can use a system installation of g2fx or just 
> let it use some generic tuning parameters, it will be great, and I can 
> continue with actually working with sage instead of fighting it!
> 
> Thanks,
>  basu.
> 
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