When I try to emerge kde or just xfree the emerge falls into an infinite loop during the xfree-4.3.0-r6 ebuild. The display shows: Writing 192 characters into file '<some font>-ISO8859-15.bdf'. rm -f <some font>-ISO8859-15.bdf ../../../exports/bin/usc2any <some font>.bdf ../../../fonts/util/map-ISO8859-5 ISO8859-15 These three lines are repeated over and over for different fonts <some font> ranging from helv### to lut### to times### and then when it gets dont with the last font it restarts with the first one again. I ctrl-c to break the emerge. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run: emerge xfree 2. --or-- 3. run: emerge kde Actual Results: the emerge starts, downloads the dependents, does some upacking, does some compiling then eventually falls into the infinite loop as described above. Expected Results: worked. I expected it to finish emergeing xfree so that I could get KDE onto the laptop. This is a brand new install of gentoo-sources 2.4.26 on a Dell CPxH Laptop 500MHz-CPU 20GB-HD, w/ a Xircom PCMCIA 10/100 card. I have run: emerge system, etc-update on all /etc and emerge sync without any effeect on the problem.
Attach a log showing the loop, please. That means it actually needs to have the same exact line twice. Here's an example of normal activity from my log: rm -f 4x6-ISO8859-1.bdf ../../../exports/bin/ucs2any 4x6.bdf ../../../fonts/util/map-ISO8859-1 ISO8859-1 Writing 223 characters into file '4x6-ISO8859-1.bdf'. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=../../../exports/lib XLOCALEDIR=../../../exports/lib/locale ../../../exports/bin/bdftopcf -t 4x6-ISO8859-1.bdf | gzip > 4x6-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz Also, how long did you wait? The font compilation takes a while. I can't predict how long on a 500mhz machine, but have you successfully compiled X before on this machine? An estimate would be 4-5 hours, plus or minus an hour. This may be slower because of a slow laptop hard drive.
Note that estimate was for all of X, not just the fonts.
the loop is obviously an infinite loop. I watched the program loop over about a 2 minute period after which the same exact output was reshown. I've left the emerge running over night too. This is the first time I have installed X, but I was made aware by a coworker that it would take some time. I have recently tried: USE="-X" emerge kde inorder to get kde without having to do xfree which mostlikely will not work but oh well. Once this emerge finishes I will setup ssh on the machine an get a log going on an "emerge xfree".
Don't tell me, show me. The facts are what matter, and I need to see them to help.
fixed, dont know how, dont care, finally worked. The looping lines in the log no longer have the "Writing 192 characters into..." line. I would bother to add the log but no need. Have a nice day....
fixed
