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Bug 73355 - emerge of gentoo-dev-kernel failed after consuming all memory on sparc64
Summary: emerge of gentoo-dev-kernel failed after consuming all memory on sparc64
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Sparc Porters
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Reported: 2004-12-04 10:00 UTC by mythdraug
Modified: 2013-02-22 22:10 UTC (History)
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Description mythdraug 2004-12-04 10:00:16 UTC
ebuild.log:
1102146453:  >>> emerge (4 of 4) sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r19 to /
1102146453:  === (4 of 4) Cleaning (sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r19::/usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/gentoo-dev-s
ources-2.6.7-r19.ebuild)
1102146459:  === (4 of 4) Compiling/Merging (sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.7-r19::/usr/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources/gen
too-dev-sources-2.6.7-r19.ebuild)
1102149201:  *** terminating.

messages:
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids 
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids Free pages:        1632kB (0kB HighMem)
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids Active:8495 inactive:77886 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:204 slab:1124 mapped:86182 pagetables:217
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids DMA free:1632kB min:840kB low:1680kB high:2520kB active:67960kB inactive:623088kB present:717360kB
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids protections[]: 210 210 210
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids protections[]: 0 0 0
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids HighMem free:0kB min:256kB low:512kB high:768kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids protections[]: 0 0 0
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids DMA: 0*8kB 0*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 2*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 1*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB 0*8192kB = 1632kB
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids Normal: empty
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids HighMem: empty
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids Swap cache: add 67744, delete 67744, find 253/354, race 0+1
Dec  4 02:33:13 kids Out of Memory: Killed process 20833 (ebuild.sh).

A monitored attempt to emerge showed that during the postinstall, an attempt was made to `cat /proc/openprom/name`.   This produces an unending repetition of 'SUNW,Ultra-1'.  more or less'ing the file produces a single instance of the string.



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:





log # emerge info
Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-sparc64-2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2,
2.6.8-gentoo-r10 sparc64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 sparc64 sun4u
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1
Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.14.90.0.8-r1
Headers:  sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1
Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc"
CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu"
COMPILER=""
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo
http://gentoo.seren.com/gentoo http://chod.cwru.edu/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="sparc arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode esd f77 fbcon
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif imlib jpeg libwww mad mbox mikmod motif mpeg ncurses
nls nptl oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python readline sdl slang
spell ssl tcpd truetype ultra1 xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Comment 1 John Mylchreest (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-09-29 14:44:30 UTC
Imsure this is pretty moot now :)
Comment 2 Christian Ruppert (idl0r) gentoo-dev 2013-02-22 22:10:50 UTC
Reassigning since sparc-kernel@gentoo.org will be removed, bug 455180.