When disk space on /var/tmp/portage filesystem runs out, portage will bail out with python backtrace, complaining about "No free space left on device". fuser -c will show then ebuild-ipc process still hanging around and blocking filesystem from being unmount. Bad for someone, who uses tmpfs on /var/tmp/portage for speed or ssd-disk reasons, but forgets to unmount it before compiling something like openoffice. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. mount none -t tmpfs -o size=200m 2. ebuild /usr/portage/<some big ebuild, like openoffice> merge 3. fuser -c /var/tmp/portage Portage 2.2.0_alpha4 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.1-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-nord-oss-2.2 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-nord-oss-2.2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_T6600_@_2.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:45:03 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.6.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.3-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4 sys-devel/make: 3.82 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rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-apps/portage-2.2.0_alpha4 was built with the following: USE="(ipc) (multilib) -build -doc -epydoc -python3 (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl"
The ebuild-ipc program has a 15 second timeout. If the processes are still hanging around after 15 seconds then it's not functioning correctly.
Well, you're partially right. My testcase is somewhat not precise. If I'll run _single_ emerge process - all fine, ipc goes away after some timeout. But when I'm running few processes at once, for example emerge -1 openoffice and emerge -e -1 @world And after both process will fail (at same time), none of ebuild-ipc's will not perish anymore after any timeout. And once I've got message from failing emerge -1 openoffice * waiting for lock on fd 7 ... [ ok ] If you will run more emerge processes, especially with -j* option, you will get more "zombie" ipc's
Also, this could happen with any other python-backtrace-error. For example, recently, I've encountered it, while running emerge openafs-kernel at one console and making ebuild openafs-kernel-1.4.12.1.ebuild clean at another, accidentally. It had lead to python-fail at first console, complaining about disappeared build.log and left one stale python-ipc process. Futhermore, merges after that found this python-ipc process as stale one, complaining about it at every merge phase.
It seems like we just need to exert more control over nested subprocesses, as in bug 344555.
