Rebuilding the world (emerge -e system && emerge -e world) hangs indefinitely during emerge of kde-base/libkdepim-3.5.8. Specifically, it freezes and never returns after printing this line: * Applying libkdepim-3.5-headers_for_knetworkmanager.diff ... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -e system 2. emerge -e world - or simply: 1. emerge libkdepim Actual Results: >>> Emerging (458 of 892) kde-base/libkdepim-3.5.8 to / * kdepim-3.5.8.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * kdepim-3.5-patchset-04.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking kdepim-3.5.8.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking kdepim-3.5-patchset-04.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking parts of kdepim-3.5.8.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/libkdepim-3.5.8/work >>> Unpacking kdepim-3.5-patchset-04.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/kde-base/libkdepim-3.5.8/work Symlinking library libkcal under /usr/kde/3.5/lib64/ in source dir * Applying libkdepim-3.5-headers_for_knetworkmanager.diff ... <and it never comes back...> FWIW, I am experiencing a similar bug (emerge freezes during early configuration stage, but on a different line) for gnome-applets: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219956 I was able to work around the gnome-applets bug by upgrading to the unstable version of python, but I have not been able to resolve this problem. Upgrading to the unstable version of KDE did not resolve this issue. I fail. :-( Maybe they are related? emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.24-gentoo-r4 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz Timestamp of tree: Thu, 01 May 2008 17:04:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r9, 2.5.2-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j4" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--timeout=30" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bonobo bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdr cgi clamav cli cracklib crypt ctype cups dri dts dv dvd dvdr emacs encode esd exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox font-server fortran freetype gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv imlib ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg kde libg++ libwww live lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mmx motif mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nvidia ofx ogg oggvorbis openal openexr opengl openmp pam pcre pdf pdflib perl php plotutils pmu png posix pppd python qmail-spp qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection ruby samba scanner sdl session simplexml slang snmp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl stream svg tcl tcltk tcpd theora tidy tiff tk tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts unicode usb vcd vhosts vim-syntax vlm vorbix wxwindows x264 xcomposite xml xmlrpc xorg xpm xv xvid xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id usertrack" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Well, I kept doing an "emerge --skipfirst", until my "emerge -e world" was completed. I don't know what was finally rebuilt, but something was eventually rebuilt that made everything else happy. I am able to emerge libkdepim and gnome-applets with no problems now. I would love to know what tool was broken and causing this problem, but I guess there is no way to know now.
(In reply to comment #1) > I would love to know what tool was broken and causing this problem, but I guess > there is no way to know now. That'd be 'emerge --skipfirst'
