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Bug 217122

Summary: Fetching seems to be stopped
Product: Portage Development Reporter: Dennis Winter <d.w.79>
Component: Core - Ebuild SupportAssignee: Portage team <dev-portage>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor Keywords: InVCS
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 216231    

Description Dennis Winter 2008-04-10 11:47:30 UTC
During fetching I get the following message and it seems to be stopped:

>>> Emerging (2 of 4) sys-apps/usermode-utilities-20040406-r1 to /
Downloading 'uml_utilities_20040406.tar.bz2'... see /var/log/emerge-fetch.log for details.
^C

#####
* This problem is not limited to this particular ebuild, but a general problem.
* The problem occurs only if you emerge more than 1 ebuilds and never with the first ebuild
* Thus a restart resolves the problem

BUT actually after the restart it "resumes" the fetching process, therfore it is most probably not a problem in the actual fetching process but in the feedback to the user.
In any case it is a little bit distracting.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
It just happens from time to time
Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-04-10 15:34:08 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> During fetching I get the following message and it seems to be stopped:
> 
> >>> Emerging (2 of 4) sys-apps/usermode-utilities-20040406-r1 to /
> Downloading 'uml_utilities_20040406.tar.bz2'... see /var/log/emerge-fetch.log
> for details.
> ^C

Did you look in /var/log/emerge-fetch.log to see if it appeared to be fetching? If it's fetching correctly then there's no need to press ^C.

If you don't like parallel-fetch the you can add FEATURES="-parallel-fetch" to /etc/make.conf. It's been enabled by default in portage-2.1.5 since most people seem to like it.
Comment 2 Dennis Winter 2008-04-10 16:24:58 UTC
If this is about parallel fetching, than this is indeed neither a bug nor a problem, but it would be nice to have a short note in the error message, that would clearify it.

And yes, it seems to be fetching, since after a restart the new fetching process starts higher than 0%.
Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-04-10 19:42:41 UTC
Maybe something like this be more clear:

Downloading 'uml_utilities_20040406.tar.bz2' in a background process. See /var/log/emerge-fetch.log for details.
Comment 4 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-04-10 20:33:02 UTC
Here's what the new message will look like:

 * Fetching 'uml_utilities_20040406.tar.bz2' in the background. To
 * view fetch progress, run `tail -f /var/log/emerge-fetch.log` in
 * another terminal.
Comment 5 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2008-04-13 04:34:03 UTC
This is fixed in 2.1.5_rc3.