When trying to compile autogen, the emerge stops here: PASS: convert.test ================== All 1 tests passed ================== make[4]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag/test' cd . ; chmod +x *.test make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag/test' make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag' make[3]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'. make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag' make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag' make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/xml2ag' Making check in pkg make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/pkg' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `check'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1/pkg' make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1' make[1]: Nothing to be done for `check-am'. make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/autogen-5.7.1/work/autogen-5.7.1' I killed it after 10 hours like that Portage 2.1.2-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 Mobile Technology TL-56 Gentoo Base System release 1.12.6 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:47:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 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: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -msse3 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -msse3 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache collision-protect distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer multilib-strict sandbox sfperms strict test userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo http://gentoo.blueyonder.co.uk http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X Xaw3d a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts branding bzip2 cairo cddb cli cracklib cups curl dbus dlloader dri dts dvd encode exif firefox flac foomaticdb gdbm gif glitz gs gtk guile hal iconv icu imagemagick imlib isdnlog ithreads java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww lirc logrotate mmap mp3 ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python readline reflection sdl session sndfile spl ssl svg symlink tcl tcpd test theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis xcb xml xorg xosd xv xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics ps2mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" LIRC_DEVICES="mceusb2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
forgot to mention, it wasnt using any CPU time when it stopped. These are the relevant processes running at the time: 20795 pts/2 00:00:01 emerge 29336 pts/2 00:00:00 tee 29337 pts/2 00:00:00 ebuild.sh <defunct>
Reopen if you have problems w/ 5.8.8
Reopen to dupe.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167365 ***
