modules-update --force is causing multiple runaway processes which eventually slow the system to a halt. First noticed this when updating to baselayout-1.12.6 which uses modules-update --force. This did not prevent baselayout from installing however -- installed three new versions since the problem first started (but am worried to reboot). emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2_rc3-r4 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.19-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.7 Last Sync: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r6 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fvisibility-inlines-hidden" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en ru es" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa alsa_cards_intel8x0 apache2 arts asf atk audiofile automount bash-completion berkdb bonobo bzip2 cairo caps cdda cddb cdr chroot cjk cli cracklib crypt css ctype cups dba dbus dlloader dmi doc dts dvd dvdr eds effects elibc_glibc emboss encode ethereal examples exif expat fam fastbuild ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran fpx ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gmp gnutls gpm graphviz gs gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal hpn iconv idn ieee1394 imagemagick imap imlib inkjar input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 ithreads jpeg jpeg2k kde kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux lcms ldap lesstif libcaca libg++ libwww linguas_en linguas_es linguas_ru live lm_sensors logitech-mouse lynxkeymap lzw mad matroska md5sum memlimit mikmod mmx mmxext mng mod motif mp3 mpeg mplayer mysql mysqli ncurses new-login nls no-old-linux nptl nptlonly nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl oss pam pam_console pcre pdf perl php plugin pmu png posix postgres ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection samba scanner sdl sensord session simplexml skins slang slp smp sndfile soap sockets spell spl sqlite sse ssl svg svga symlink tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tidy tiff tk tokenizer toolbar truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU v4l v4l2 vcd video_cards_dummy video_cards_nvidia vim vim-pager vim-with-x visualization vorbis win32codecs wma wmp wxwindows xcomposite xine xinetd xml xml2 xorg xosd xprint xrandr xscreensaver xsl xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY ps aux during attempted modules-update --force in attachment. All of the processes start within a few seconds of running modules-update --force and stop within seconds when I force quit by Ctrl-C.
Created attachment 104056 [details] ps aux output
Created attachment 104057 [details] ps aux output
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 149426 ***
