Bug 17909 – gentoo-stats hangs with gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2?

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Narada Sage 2003-03-20 22:28:16 UTC]

When I perform

$ gentoo-stats --update

it hangs but does not crash the shell and can be exited cleanly by ^C.  I'm
thinking perhaps it's my configuration.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot off gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r2
2. gentoo-stats --update
3.

Actual Results:  
It hangs without any output.  Is there any reason for it to take unusually long?

Expected Results:  
It should gather information and submit it and then echo OK.

Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.1-r2)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.linux.no/
http://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/
http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ "
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb:/usr/kde/3.1/share/config:/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 oss 3dnow apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg libg++ libwww mikmod mmx
mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml
gdbm berkdb slang readline arts bonobo svga java guile X sdl gpm tcpd pam ssl
perl python imlib oggvorbis gnome gtk qt kde motif opengl aalib acpi alsa cdr
directfb dvd esd fbcon gtk2 imap mozilla moznoirc moznomail moznocompose
moznoxft mozsvg nas sse tcltk tiff usb xml"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fforce-addr"
CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fprefetch-loop-arrays
-falign-functions=4 -funroll-loops -ffast-math -fforce-addr"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-03-21 03:43:20 UTC]

did you try another kernel ?
did you try to recompile gentoo-stats ?

[Comment 2 Narada Sage 2003-03-21 06:55:38 UTC]

I think I've solved this issue but am not completely sure of what the problem was earlier.  Anyway, here's what happened.  I re-emerged it a couple of times but that didn't help.  Previously my system VM was set to blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 and when I did gentoo-stats --update although it hung, after a while it threw up some quite unpleasant java errors (attached).  After changing my system VM to sun-jdk-1.4.1.02 it worked fine.  Then when I changed back to blackdown-jdk-1.4.1 amazingly it continued to work.  Perhaps the output of java-config --list-available-vms and java -version should be part of the 'emerge info' diagnostic.  Just a thought.

[Comment 3 Narada Sage 2003-03-21 06:57:54 UTC]

Created attachment 9651 [details]
Java errors thrown by gentoo-stats --update 

This file contains java errors thrown by gentoo-stats --update when system vm
is set to blackdown-jdk-1.4.1.

[Comment 4 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-03-22 07:40:05 UTC]

java issue
closing this as invalid