This problem is repeatable. I didn't see any other bugs containing term "searchdesc". Built a gentoo box from scratch this week. Whenever I do an emerge searchdesc, it takes so long that I eventually stop it with ctrl-c. I've let it run for 5 minutes or more and it never returns any results. After killing it with ctrl-c, regular emerge operations give an error "!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct." Emerge sync SEEMS to fix this, but I'm not sure how to tell if it's REALLY fixed or not. If you do a ps ax in another console while it's running, you see various ebuild processes. Not sure if that is true in a working environment or not. Older versions didn't have this problem. emerge --version reports Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22-ac4) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge searchdesc searchterm or emerge -S searchterm Actual Results: The spinning slash that indicates activity is very very slow. By the time I lost patience no search results had been returned. Afterwards emerge gives the error about dependencies. Expected Results: Should have shown me packages whose descriptions matched my searchterm.
I'm seeing this too -- left it running for maybe half an hour. Didn't see any warnings about depedencies though .. jean@klippie jean $ emerge --version Portage 2.0.49-r21 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r5)
This problem happens in the current portage? (2.0.50-r1/r3). Let me know.
I can no longer duplicate the problem - my current system is: Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.1-gentoo)
synchronis db modules fix this. :)
