After emerge sys-apps/portage-2.3.62 I can't emerge packages. My DISTDIR is mountet via CIFS located on a NAS. Always break with the same messages - as example: $ emerge xmessage: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/util/_async/ForkProcess.py", line 55, in _spawn rval = self._run() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/EbuildFetcher.py", line 242, in _run allow_missing_digests=allow_missing): File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/package/ebuild/fetch.py", line 651, in fetch wantnewlockfile=1, **lock_kwargs) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/locks.py", line 113, in lockfile unlinkfile=unlinkfile, waiting_msg=waiting_msg, flags=flags) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/locks.py", line 304, in _lockfile_iteration removed = _lockfile_was_removed(myfd, lockfilename) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/locks.py", line 407, in _lockfile_was_removed _raise_exc(e) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/locks.py", line 404, in _lockfile_was_removed os.unlink(hardlink_path) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/portage/__init__.py", line 250, in __call__ rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs) OSError: [Errno 16] Device or resource busy: '/mnt/auto/gentoo_nas/..xmessage-1.0.5.tar.bz2.portage_lockfile.hardlock-linuxpc-6284' * Fetch failed for 'x11-apps/xmessage-1.0.5', Log file: * '/var/tmp/portage/x11-apps/xmessage-1.0.5/temp/build.log' two solutions I found: - local DISTDIR work fine $ DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" emerge -av xmessage - emerge =sys-apps/portage-2.3.51-r1 and $ emerge -av xmessage works with DISTDIR over CIFS here the options: $ mount | grep gentoo //192.168.2.2/gentoo on /mnt/auto/gentoo_nas type cifs (rw,relatime,vers=1.0,cache=strict,username=gentoo,uid=250,forceuid,gid=250,forcegid,addr=192.168.2.2,file_mode=0755,dir_mode=0755,soft,nounix,serverino,mapposix,rsize=61440,wsize=65536,echo_interval=60,actimeo=1) $ emerge --info Portage 2.3.62 (python 2.7.15-final-0, default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop, gcc-8.2.0, glibc-2.27-r6, 4.19.27-gentoo-r1 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-4.19.27-gentoo-r1-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E3-1231_v3_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.6 KiB Mem: 8103152 total, 5789372 free KiB Swap: 16777208 total, 16777208 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 06:45:01 +0000 Head commit of repository gentoo: 361ea1982f9b4acfdab0dceed6d63515fa96a42e sh bash 4.4_p23-r1 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.30 p5) 2.30.0 ccache version 3.3.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.4_p23-r1::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0-r4::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.26.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.15::gentoo, 3.6.5::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.3.4-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.9.6::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.29.2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.38.3-r1::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.13::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13-r1::gentoo, 2.69-r4::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r5::gentoo, 1.10.3-r3::gentoo, 1.11.6-r3::gentoo, 1.16.1-r1::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.30-r4::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 8.2.0-r6::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 2.0::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r3::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.2.1-r4::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.14-r1::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.27-r6::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 sync-rsync-verify-jobs: 1 sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest: yes sync-rsync-extra-opts: sync-rsync-verify-max-age: 24 KalleLocalOverlay location: /usr/local/portage masters: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/sofficerc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/mnt/auto/gentoo_nas" ENV_UNSET="DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS DISPLAY GOBIN PERL5LIB PERL5OPT PERLPREFIX PERL_CORE PERL_MB_OPT PERL_MM_OPT XAUTHORITY XDG_CACHE_HOME XDG_CONFIG_HOME XDG_DATA_HOME XDG_RUNTIME_DIR" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-docompress binpkg-dostrip binpkg-logs ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news parallel-fetch pid-sandbox preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de de_DE" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cups cxx dbus dga dri dts dvd dvdr elogind emboss encode exif fam fbcon flac fortran gdbm gif glamor gpm iconv icu ipv6 jpeg kpathsea lcms libnotify libtirpc lzo mad mmx mmxext mng mp3 mp4 mpeg ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf png policykit ppds qt5 readline samba sdl seccomp spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb v4l vdpau vorbis wxwidgets x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xml xv xvid zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="usb-audio" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd 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 cgi cgid 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" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="karbon sheets words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 f16c fma3 mmx mmxext pclmul popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="efi-64" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" L10N="de" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" NETBEANS_MODULES="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6 php7-1" POSTGRES_TARGETS="postgres9_5 postgres10" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_6" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby24" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nouveau" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BINHOST, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Apparently this case is triggered by the hardlink code from bug 636798. You can set FEATURES="-distlocks" as a workaround.
Thanks for help! With FEATURES="-distlocks" emerge works fine, but FEATURES="parallel-fetch" ist also disabled. For me this option goes to silent activ.