Bug 484298 – app-i18n/man-pages-de-1.3 - src_install(): po4a hangs

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Christian Apeltauer 2013-09-09 06:26:41 UTC]

When installing app-i18n/man-pages-de-1.3.0 the installation process gets caught in an infinite loop during phase install triggered by po4a-translate (app-text/po4-0.42) . It always happens at the same location. CPU usage goes up to 100%, but memory stays reasonable.


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Christian Apeltauer 2013-09-09 06:27:03 UTC]

Created attachment 358336 [details]
Output of ps

[Comment 2 Christian Apeltauer 2013-09-09 06:27:22 UTC]

Created attachment 358338 [details]
output of cave info man-pages-de

[Comment 3 Christian Apeltauer 2013-09-09 06:28:47 UTC]

Created attachment 358340 [details]
1378577530-install-app-i18n_man-pages-de-1.3:0::gentoo.out

[Comment 4 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2013-09-22 13:50:24 UTC]

Please test again with sys-apps/portage as PM.

[Comment 5 cmuelle8 2013-09-25 21:02:36 UTC]

(In reply to Manuel Rüger from comment #4)
> Please test again with sys-apps/portage as PM.

Same problem here.

[Comment 6 cmuelle8 2013-09-25 23:20:39 UTC]

Created attachment 359494 [details, diff]
temporary patch to make ebuild merge

Using the patch I was able to successfully mere the package with paludis being the PM.

"-k 0" option essentially means: take all unfinished translations, the default is to drop manpages with a translation completion below 80 percent.

Having applied "-k 0" let po4a pass a lot of source files, except groff and console_ioctl - which is why they are excluded explicitely in the patch.

Note:  This is no real solution, the issues needs further investigation.  I have not tried using portage.  I suspect an enoding issue / missing env vars or broken perl install being the root cause for this problem.


Greetings

[Comment 7 Manuel Rüger (RETIRED) 2013-09-26 00:14:34 UTC]

Installs without any problems for me with portage-2.2.7 and sys-apps/man-pages-3.51 installed.

[Comment 8 Markus Walter 2013-10-29 21:46:08 UTC]

I cannot reproduce this either. Can you rerun with MAKEOPTS -j1 so we can single out an offender?

[Comment 9 Christian Apeltauer 2013-11-09 20:55:47 UTC]

Created attachment 362920 [details]
build log of po4a-0.45

[Comment 10 Christian Apeltauer 2013-11-09 20:56:34 UTC]

(In reply to Markus Oehme from comment #8)
> I cannot reproduce this either. Can you rerun with MAKEOPTS -j1 so we can
> single out an offender?

I tried to iinstall man-pages-de-0.45 again, but this time po4a itself hangs during installation (see above comment for the build log).

[Comment 11 Markus Walter 2013-11-10 09:27:28 UTC]

(In reply to Christian Apeltauer from comment #10)
> I tried to iinstall man-pages-de-0.45 again, but this time po4a itself hangs
> during installation (see above comment for the build log).

Unfortunately, the build log is not very informative (I tried the build with portage, which worked fine for me and produced a more verbose output). Maybe 'Module::Build was not found in configure_requires!' is a problem, but I don't have any experience with paludis, so that may be a red herring.

I've one more guess: maybe your perl-installation got whacky somehow. Maybe try remerging perl and using perl-cleaner.

[Comment 12 Maxr 2014-01-14 08:26:33 UTC]

Same Problems Here

[Comment 13 Markus Walter 2014-01-14 17:32:48 UTC]

(In reply to Maxr from comment #12)
> Same Problems Here

First some preliminaries:
* Do you use portage?
* Did you remerge perl and use perl-cleaner (just to be sure)?
* Did you test with latest po4a and man-pages-de?

Please provide a build log with MAKEOPTS="-j1". I'll then try to spot a difference to the working merge on this side.

[Comment 14 Maxr 2014-01-15 07:53:28 UTC]

Thank you for your 
(In reply to Markus Oehme from comment #13)
> (In reply to Maxr from comment #12)
> > Same Problems Here
> 
> First some preliminaries:
> * Do you use portage?
I use paludis/cave
> * Did you remerge perl and use perl-cleaner (just to be sure)?
yes, I have reinstalled perl and updated perl with  perl-cleaner -P paludis --all. However, I will do it again to make sure not wasting your time. 
> * Did you test with latest po4a and man-pages-de?
Sorry, I should say I have problem only with app-text/po4a-0.45,I don't need man-pages-de
> 
> Please provide a build log with MAKEOPTS="-j1". I'll then try to spot a
> difference to the working merge on this side.
Will test and update later.

[Comment 15 Maxr 2014-01-15 08:18:21 UTC]

Created attachment 367882 [details]
outputlog of cave resolve po4a -x -1

perl version : v5.16.3
command used :
1: cave resolve perl -1 -x
2: perl-cleaner -P paludis --all
3: cave resolve po4a -x -1 output log

[Comment 16 Markus Walter 2014-01-16 14:48:00 UTC]

I did some testing and this seems to be a paludis specific thing. I can reproduce the stall with paludis on my machine, while portage does fine on the same setup. I opened a ticket in the paludis bug tracker and will move the discussion there.