Gentoo Websites Logo
Go to: Gentoo Home Documentation Forums Lists Bugs Planet Store Wiki Get Gentoo!
Bug 370841 - sci-misc/boinc-6.12.26-r1 crashes randomly
Summary: sci-misc/boinc-6.12.26-r1 crashes randomly
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Science Related Packages
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-09 17:11 UTC by Greg Trigg
Modified: 2013-06-30 14:46 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description Greg Trigg 2011-06-09 17:11:54 UTC
On amd64 and ppc64, with baselayout-2, I'm getting random boinc failures.  They seem to happen once every day or two on all machines I administer which include 64-bit Intel, Pentium 4, AMD, IBM Power, and Playstation 3.  All the above transitioned to baselayout-2 before the boinc upgrade, so it could be a baselayout problem, but I'll file it under boinc until proven otherwise.  Perhaps there's a baselayout-1 user still who can confirm.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/boinc start
2. wait a day or two
3. The boinc daemon dies but still registers as started
Actual Results:  
Boinc crashes, all tasks stop and boinccmd can no longer connect.

Expected Results:  
Boinc stays running until shutdown or manually by root.

Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.4.5, libc-0-r0, 2.6.37-gentoo-r4 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.37-gentoo-r4-x86_64-Dual_Core_AMD_Opteron-tm-_Processor_275-with-gentoo-2.0.2
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:30:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-lang/python:     2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.4-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2
sys-apps/openrc:     0.8.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
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-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.82
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1
sys-libs/glibc:      2.12.2
virtual/os-headers:  0
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=64 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=1024 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=64 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=1024 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distcc distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -msahf --param l1-cache-size=64 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=1024 -mtune=k8 -O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://129.123.104.64/gentoo "
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j8"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac fortran gdu gif gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk iconv imap ipv6 jpeg lcms ldap libnotify libwww mad maildir mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sasl sdl session spell sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86-64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86-64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/powerpc/ppc64/10.0/64bit-userland/desktop, gcc-4.4.5, libc-0-r0, 2.6.36-gentoo-r8 ppc64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r8-ppc64-POWER3_-630+-with-gentoo-2.0.2
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 03 Jun 2011 17:30:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu [enabled]
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r9
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.4-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2
sys-apps/openrc:     0.8.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
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-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.81-r2
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1
sys-libs/glibc:      2.12.2
virtual/os-headers:  0
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=power3 -mtune=power3 -mmultiple -mno-altivec -mdouble-float -mhard-float -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="powerpc64-unknown-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.3/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -mcpu=power3 -mtune=power3 -mmultiple -mno-altivec -mdouble-float -mhard-float -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache distcc distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS=""
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://mirror.usu.edu/gentoo "
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif extensions fam firefox flac fortran gdu gif gpm gtk ibm iconv ipv6 java jpeg lcms ldap libnotify mad mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppc64 ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sdl session spell ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" PHP_TARGETS="php5-2 php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev gxt4500" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Portage 2.1.9.42 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/gnome, gcc-4.4.5, libc-0-r0, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.2
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:30:01 +0000
distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.1_p9
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3
dev-lang/python:     2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r9
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.4-r1
sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.2
sys-apps/openrc:     0.8.2-r1
sys-apps/sandbox:    2.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65-r1
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-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.10
sys-devel/make:      3.82
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1
sys-libs/glibc:      2.12.2
virtual/os-headers:  0
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=prescott --param l1-cache-size=16 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=1024 -mtune=generic -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib/fax /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/spool/fax/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=prescott --param l1-cache-size=16 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=1024 -mtune=generic -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=prescott --param l1-cache-size=16 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=1024 -mtune=generic -fomit-frame-pointer"
GENTOO_MIRRORS=" http://mirror.usu.edu/gentoo "
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j5"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode evo exif fam firefox flac fortran gdu gif glib gnome gnome-keyring gpm gstreamer gtk iconv ipv6 jpeg lcms ldap libnotify mad mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap nautilus ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sdl session spell sse2 ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="braindump flow karbon kexi kpresenter krita tables words" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" LIRC_DEVICES="all" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-06-10 03:11:22 UTC
How does boinc crash? Do you have any output from the daemons?
Comment 2 Greg Trigg 2011-06-10 15:34:44 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> How does boinc crash? Do you have any output from the daemons?

Not sure where the best place is to get that information.  I did a quick check of my logs, but didn't find anything that would be useful.  All I can say is that all processes owned by boinc stop running, but when I try to start it, it says it's already running.  When this occurs, I give the command to stop it and it throws out the "!!" message instead of "[OK]".  Then it will start.  I haven't noticed it in the past couple of days, so if and when it happens again, I'll see if I can find something a little more specific.
Comment 3 Greg Trigg 2011-06-10 15:37:10 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
>... When this occurs, I give the command to stop it and
> it throws out the "!!" message instead of "[OK]".  Then it will start...

...when I give the command, that is.
Comment 4 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-06-10 16:15:05 UTC
Sounds like bug #320747?
Comment 5 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-06-11 14:48:04 UTC
There is not much we as Gentoo could do.

The boinc code is somehow not particulary clean thus it is more for upstream to fix.
Comment 6 Greg Trigg 2011-06-12 22:26:26 UTC
Had another one die while I was away for the weekend.

(In reply to comment #4)
> Sounds like bug #320747?

That's from a year ago, is a different version (older than the one that I didn't have a problem with, and not the problem I currently have.  I have no problems attaching to projects at all.

(In reply to comment #5)
> There is not much we as Gentoo could do.
> 
> The boinc code is somehow not particulary clean thus it is more for upstream to
> fix.

Fair enough.  It would be good, though, to know if other Gentoo users are having the same problem.

Perhaps we can get boinc-6.10.58 placed back in portage as an alternate to 6.12.26?
Comment 7 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-07-11 21:14:17 UTC
I bumped the version to 6.12.33 could you try that one?
Also i can't restore the 6.10 version as the init scripts were rewritten and thus they wont probably work.

If you want you can restore everything from cvs attic (http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sci-misc/boinc/) just browse dead files and history for the scripts/configs.
Comment 8 Greg Trigg 2011-07-19 10:51:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #7)
> I bumped the version to 6.12.33 could you try that one?
> Also i can't restore the 6.10 version as the init scripts were rewritten and
> thus they wont probably work.
> 
> If you want you can restore everything from cvs attic
> (http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/sci-misc/boinc/) just
> browse dead files and history for the scripts/configs.

OK, I tried it on one of my ppc64's and one of my amd64's.  It's been running until now, but has just crashed on the ppc64.  The amd64 is still going, so far.

I have wrote myself a cron job which is pretty effective at restarting boinc when it crashes.  Of course, it will restart boinc if it's stopped even if it wasn't because of a crash.  I'll post it if anyone wants it.

I do request that in the future the old version be left in portage when a new one comes out.  Give users the ability to upgrade in their own time.  6.10 to 6.12 is a good example, though the move to baselayout-2 may have prevented it in this case.
Comment 9 Justin Lecher (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-06-30 14:46:20 UTC
Seems to be fixed from the comments.