In trying to update my system, I have noticed a recent update to totem has been hanging the shell indefinitely, although I can Ctrl+C out of the emerge. # emerge -uDNpvt1 media-video/totem These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ~] media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2 [2.32.0-r1] USE="bluetooth iplayer lirc nsplugin python upnp youtube -debug -doc -galago -nautilus (-tracker)" 0 kB # emerge -uDN1 media-video/totem Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2 * totem-2.32.0.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * totem-2.32.0-patches.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * Package: media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2 * Repository: gentoo * Maintainer: gnome@gentoo.org media-video@gentoo.org,gstreamer@gentoo.org * USE: amd64 bluetooth elibc_glibc iplayer kernel_linux lirc multilib nsplugin python upnp userland_GNU youtube * FEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking totem-2.32.0.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work >>> Unpacking totem-2.32.0-patches.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2/work/totem-2.32.0 ... * Fixing OMF Makefiles ... [ ok ] ... configure: creating ./config.lt config.lt: creating libtool checking for x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for glib-genmarshal... /usr/bin/glib-genmarshal checking for glib-mkenums... /usr/bin/glib-mkenums checking whether to enable easy codec installation support... yes checking for MISSING_PLUGINS... yes checking for GST... yes checking GStreamer 0.10 inspection tool... yes checking GStreamer 0.10 playbin2 plugin... And, there it hangs indefinitely. Checking the running processes, I find: # ps -ef | grep -i gst root 12464 10484 0 11:48 pts/2 00:00:00 /usr/bin/gst-inspect-0.10 playbin2 root 12465 12464 2 11:48 pts/2 00:00:02 /usr/libexec/gstreamer-0.10/gst-plugin-scanner -l Using sudo did not help. (It hangs for regular user too.) And, I verified that dbus has a machine id: # cat /var/lib/dbus/machine-id 12345646550110912d689e1747654321 I re-emerged all my gst plug-ins too: # emerge -1 `qlist -I gst-plugins -C` What am I missing? Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 276159 [details] emerge --info
How are you becoming root? Are you running "su" or "su -"? Have you tried to merge it from a console login in as root directly?
I tried both (su -, and sudo). I normally use a root console, but some claimed that sudo made a difference on similar bugs, so I just wanted to rule it out. The problem actually went away with a recent emerge. I suspect the fix was in the new dbus release, but here's the emerge bundle that fixed the problem for me: 1307539910: >>> emerge (1 of 13) net-libs/libpcap-1.1.1 to / 1307539930: >>> emerge (2 of 13) sys-apps/dbus-1.4.10 to / 1307539978: >>> emerge (3 of 13) dev-util/boost-build-1.42.0 to / 1307540002: >>> emerge (4 of 13) sys-fs/udev-168-r2 to / 1307540030: >>> emerge (5 of 13) net-libs/c-client-2007e-r2 to / 1307540061: >>> emerge (6 of 13) dev-libs/boost-1.42.0-r2 to / 1307540452: >>> emerge (7 of 13) net-misc/networkmanager-0.8.4.0-r1 to / 1307540532: >>> emerge (8 of 13) sys-power/upower-0.9.11-r1 to / 1307540554: >>> emerge (9 of 13) net-libs/neon-0.29.6 to / 1307540585: >>> emerge (10 of 13) net-print/hplip-3.11.5 to / 1307540646: >>> emerge (11 of 13) kde-base/solid-4.6.3 to / 1307540729: >>> emerge (12 of 13) gnome-base/gvfs-1.6.7 to / 1307540771: >>> emerge (13 of 13) media-video/totem-2.32.0-r2 to / udev and gvfs also changed at the same time, and they may have had an influence. I don't know which of these 12 packages fixed the problem, but at least one of them did fix it for me. Feel free to close, even though I don't know the exact root cause. Thanks! :)
Will close for now then, remember that "su -" is preferred over "su" ;)
