Bug 506844

Summary:	Make locks timeout and/or display a message to check for old processes
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) <tomwij>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	mgorny
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tom Wijsman (TomWij) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-04-05 17:12:21 UTC

When Portage hangs while waiting for a lock; it's not so clear that it is waiting on the lock until you go further inspect this, that lock then turns out to be due to an old process hanging. It would be nice if it would timeout and/or display a message that it is hung; explaining that there might be an old emerge process that is stuck, such that the user knows how to deal with the problem.