My bad, I sent my e-mail to the wrong receiver... Also, a correction: I'm running sks version 1.1.3.
Please see below. /A 2012/9/9 Andreas Thulin <andreas.thu...@gmail.com> > Hi! > > I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bit) on an Asrock Ion 3D ( > http://www.asrock.com/nettop/overview.asp?Model=ION%203D%20Series#Specifications), > 2Gb RAM. > > SKS version 1.1 > Berkeley version: ? - How do I find out? > > I'm running a fastbuild (n=1), which seemed to work for a qouple of > minutes, but then it looked like it stopped. > > Running > # strace -p processID > first gave a lot of reads, but then has produced nothing but > > futex(0x7f0c1db15358, FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL > > the last 10 hours. > > The funny thing is that something writes to the /sks/DB directory every > now and then. It seems to happen each time I run strace, but also at other > times. I'm thinking maybe the "n=1" thing makes this fastbuild very slow, > and the process hence should take several hours still. > > What amount of time should I expect this to take? > > Running this DB build with some sort of human readable periodic progress > indication is of course preferrable. > > Thanks all for helpful pointers! :-) > > Best regards, > Andreas > > > 2012/9/9 John Clizbe <jpcli...@gingerbear.net> > >> Andreas Thulin wrote: >> > Hi! >> > >> > Thanks for good advice, I'll get back on getting a dump immediately. >> Trouble >> > is I tried and failed a couple of times with building the DB, and the >> sks >> > binary doesn't really give any useful feedback on what I'm doing wrong. >> > >> > Would you say an e-mail to the sks devel sendlist explaining my >> predicament >> > could be one way of getting further in the process? >> >> Most certainly. Most useful data would be: >> >> Amount of RAM, CPU architecture sometimes matters, CPU speed doesn't. >> >> OS/Distro and version. >> >> Versions of SKS and Berkeley DB. >> >> Was it a fastbuild or a build? >> >> Did it die immediately or some time later? >> >> Just by way of a quick check, the most common issue that I have seen is >> that >> the SKS process is run as a specific user, eg, debian_sks, and that user >> does >> not own the directory where the databases are being created, eg, >> /var/lib/sks. >> >> > Best regards, >> > Andreas >> >> Good Luck, >> John >> -- >> >> John P. Clizbe Inet: John (a) Gingerbear DAWT net >> SKS/Enigmail/PGP-EKP or: John ( @ ) Enigmail DAWT net >> FSF Assoc #995 / FSFE Fellow #1797 hkp://keyserver.gingerbear.net or >> mailto:pgp-public-k...@gingerbear.net?subject=HELP >> >> Q:"Just how do the residents of Haiku, Hawai'i hold conversations?" >> A:"An odd melody / island voices on the winds / surplus of vowels" >> >> >> >
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