Hi,
I am in a very strange situation where I cannot emerge anything any
more.
Since it occurs on two different machines it won't be a hardware
problem.
When I try to emerge a package, say portage, it builds it just fine and
starts to install it (for portage, the last file shown is
etc/etc-update.conf)
but then it hangs forever - no CPU / no IO. It looks as if it has
locked itself out.
This is even with a single package emerge.
The only interesting things which are shown by lsof are
emerge 1747 root mem REG 0,16 46678298
/usr/lib64/gconv/gconv-modules.cache (path dev=0,18)
emerge 1747 root 0u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
emerge 1747 root 1u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
emerge 1747 root 2u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
emerge 1747 root 3w REG 8,17 1491 38217
/var/log/slim.log
emerge 1747 root 4u a_inode 0,9 0 21 [eventpoll]
emerge 1747 root 5r FIFO 0,8 0t0 91938 pipe
emerge 1747 root 6uW REG 0,30 0 97094
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/.portage-9999.portage_lockfile
emerge 1747 root 7w FIFO 0,8 0t0 91938 pipe
emerge 1747 root 8r FIFO 0,30 0t0 91946
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-9999/.ipc_in
emerge 1747 root 10u CHR 5,2 0t0 1127 /dev/ptmx
emerge 1747 root 11u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
emerge 1747 root 12w REG 0,30 282954 91945
/var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/portage-9999/temp/build.log
Yes, I've tried to remove anything from /var/tmp/portage and the
problem persists after reboot.
Has anybody seen something similar and where to search for the problem?
Many thanks,
Helmut
