The bug has been around for multiple versions of portage Attempted deleting distfiles, ebuilds and digest files, problem still remains after rebuilding digest files. I have been unable to upgrade postfix since 2.0.3, here is what it echoes out >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-mail/postfix-2.0.13-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) postfix-2.0.13.tar.gz >>> md5 src_uri ;-) pfixtls-0.8.15-2.0.13-0.9.7b.tar.gz ***Hang*** At hang usermod takes up all remaining cpu time and does nothing. Replication I don't think it can really be replicated emerge =net-mail/postfix-2.0.9 watch it hang you may contact me at bob@monolithictechnologies.com but if it returns mail, that's cause postfix isn't working ;) so email me at lord_of_cynicism@hotmail.com if that happens if you are a dev, contact me and I'll give you any specific information on this machine/config to help you get this weird fluke bug resolved.
could you provide the results of `cat /proc/cpuinfo` and also `emerge info` ?
cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 5 model name : Pentium II (Deschutes) stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 439.963 cache size : 512 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr bogomips : 878.18 emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r7 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3/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="" USE="truetype jpeg X tiff png gd qt nls pam ssl curl imap gdbm xml xml2 crypt spell mysql flash berkdb libwwwfd readline -java" readline -java" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~arch ~x86" MAKEOPTS="-j2" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
My guess is, that your system is kinda slow, maybe related to cpu, or harddisk (hdparm running)? because the next step will be unpacking the sources. It even takes some seconds on my PIV 1800 with ATA100 disks. so could you try if it just continues after some more time?
I've given it that chance, I've let it sit there for a good 5 minutes and it hasn't progressed beyond the hang point. This is the only package that I'm aware of that it's been doing this to. and has been happening since 2.0.3 of postfix. Files Significantly larger tend to get through this point within 5-10 seconds I do run hdparm on my drive. I assure you this isn't HDD/CPU related.
Wait, why are you deleting digest files? I'd delete the relevant distfiles, then emerge sync. If you want a really clean start, then `rm -rf /usr/portage/net-mail/postfix && emerge sync` and try again.
and for the heck if it try: `emerge /usr/portage/net-mail/postfix/postfix-2.0.13-r1.ebuild` instead of `emerge postfix`
After deleting /usr/portage/net-mail/postfix dir and emerge syncing...... >>> emerge (1 of 1) net-mail/postfix-2.0.13-r1 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) postfix-2.0.13.tar.gz >>> md5 src_uri ;-) pfixtls-0.8.15-2.0.13-0.9.7b.tar.gz 5 minutes were given..... *hang*
strace -f -o portage_hang.log emerge postfix and post that here for me please. Stop it in reasonable amount of time. bzip2 it please.
Created attachment 16188 [details] log of Portage hang with postfix bzip2ed for your convenience
there's the log, it's just screaming infinant loop. bugzilla gave me an error when uploading which i submitted to the webmaster if for some reason, the file isn't there you can get it here www.fewl.org/portage_hang.log.bz2 -Rob
What's in your syslog, and does the following work? # usermod -G mail postfix Relevant chunk from strace: 16213 execve("/usr/sbin/usermod", ["usermod", "-G", "mail", "postfix"], [/* 177 vars */] <unfinished ...> ...... 16213 connect(6, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path="/dev/log"}, 16) = 0 16213 send(6, "<86>Aug 16 17:24:07 usermod[1621"..., 65, 0) = 65 16213 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_IGN}, NULL, 8) = 0 --REPEATS--
syslog ---- Aug 16 22:12:53 [usermod] add `postfix' to group `mail' ---- when doing---- usermod -G mail postfix *Hang* in /etc/group ---- mail::12:mail so no addition there.
is this still an issue ?
ping... is there still a problem here? Nothing relevant has been posted after August 2003.
no response to ping.
Closing due to old age
