I use as DISTDIR a nfs share from one of the machines I maintain. I notice some strange behaviors when nfs fails and I am merging a package: 1. At first, I have succesfully mounted remote DISTDIR (in my case it's /usr/distfiles) 2. I start an emerge, for example "emerge -1 libbonobo" 3. It downloads tarball package, uncompresses it, builds it... 4. Server machine is powered off 5. emerge stalls just before installing files in / , after running QA tests (like collision-protect one) This looks strange for me because, I think (maybe I am wrong), that portage no longer needs DISTDIR at this stage as tarball has been already used My fstab in client is: belkin3:/usr/distfiles /usr/distfiles nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=5,retry=10,retrans=2,intr And, my exports in server is: /usr/distfiles 192.168.1.201(no_root_squash,no_subtree_check,sync,rw) My emerge --info in client is: Portage 2.1.4.5 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.26-tuxonice x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.26-tuxonice x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz Timestamp of tree: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:36:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.5.2-r7 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.4.8 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 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="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer" 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 /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache collision-protect cvs distlocks metadata-transfer multilib-strict parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.free.fr/mirrors/ftp.gentoo.org" LANG="es_ES.UTF-8" LC_ALL="es_ES.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 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" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/sunrise /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups daap dbus dell divx djvu dts dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eds emboss emovix encode epiphany evo exif fam fbcondecor fbsplash ffmpeg flac fortran fuse galago gdbm gif glitz gmedia gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ieee1394 ipv6 isdnlog java java6 jpeg kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kpathsea ladspa laptop latex lcms ldap libnotify lirc lzma mad midi mikmod mjpeg mmx mono moonlight mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib musepack musicbrainz nautilus ncurses network network-cron nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline realmedia reflection scanner sdl session smp speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs t1lib tcpd theora threads tiff totem truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis wmf wmp xattr xcb xft xinetd xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon 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 deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es es_ES en_US" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS Thanks Reproducible: Always
Interesting.
When it's hung, does the 'pstree' command report any subprocesses of emerge? It might be a subprocess that's hung. When it's hung, do you see any clues in the 'dmesg' command output?
Created attachment 170066 [details] pstree output This is the output of "pstree" In dmesg I get: nfs: server belkin3 not responding, still trying But it's seems normal for me as server is down now :-/ Thanks a lot :-)
Same problem while merge phase is taking place, I have seen it today while updating gentoo-sources, when it was in merge phase (I mean, installing the files in "real" root instead of /var/tmp/portage...) it got stalled because nfs server lost connection. If you need me to try any test, tell me and I will try :-) Thanks
if still occurring, try strace -ffo /tmp/whatever -e trace=file emerge ...
