When I'm trying to update gentoo-sources after emerge --sync (i.e. using emerge -uDN world or emerge gentoo-sources) I get an error like this: ----------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/_MergeProcess.py", line 216, in _spawn prev_mtimes=self.prev_mtimes, counter=counter) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4526, in merge counter=counter) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 3825, in treewalk rval = self._merge_contents(srcroot, destroot, cfgfiledict) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4099, in _merge_contents self.settings["EPREFIX"].lstrip(os.sep), cfgfiledict, mymtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4396, in mergeme join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4396, in mergeme join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4396, in mergeme join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4396, in mergeme join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4396, in mergeme join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4396, in mergeme join(offset, x), cfgfiledict, thismtime): File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/dbapi/vartree.py", line 4209, in mergeme mydstat = os.lstat(mydest) File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 230, in __call__ rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs) OSError: [Errno 12] Cannot allocate memory: '/usr/src/linux-3.2.12-gentoo/arch/xtensa/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S' >>> Failed to install sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.12, Log file: >>> '/var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.2.12/temp/build.log' ----------- Error doesn't appear only right after reboot. I have 2Gb memory and 2Gb of swap enabled, but only a little amount of swap is used by the system. There is a "top" report right after trying to emerge gentoo-sources: ------------ top - 12:16:24 up 4 days, 2:04, 3 users, load average: 0.82, 0.51, 0.43 Tasks: 129 total, 1 running, 127 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 25.7%us, 4.9%sy, 0.0%ni, 64.5%id, 3.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.6%si, 0.0%st Mem: 2072692k total, 1764184k used, 308508k free, 110784k buffers Swap: 1959924k total, 3280k used, 1956644k free, 1382168k cached ------------ uname -a Linux server 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 #8 Wed Apr 11 23:13:18 MSK 2012 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux but it reproduces with other versions of kernels too. emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.49 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.2.1-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.1-gentoo-r2-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 04:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.6-r4 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo husky qico-xe rntrack golded-plus semen_panevin ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /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" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ http://mirror.bih.net.ba/gentoo/ http://gentoo.kiev.ua/ftp/ http://gentoo.inf.elte.hu/ ftp://gentoo.kiev.ua/" LANG="ru_RU.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en ru" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/husky /var/lib/layman/qico-xe /var/lib/layman/rntrack /var/lib/layman/golded+ /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="acl apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx dri gdbm gnutls gpm hardened iconv ipv6 modules mudflap mysql ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pax_kernel pcre perl pic pppd python readline session slang snmp ssl sysfs tcpd threads truetype unicode urandom vhosts x86 xinetd xml xorg 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="access auth auth_dbm auth_anon auth_digest alias file-cache echo charset-lite cache disk-cache mem-cache ext-filter case_filter case-filter-in deflate mime-magic cern-meta expires headers usertrack unique-id proxy proxy-connect proxy-ftp proxy-http info include cgi cgid dav dav-fs vhost-alias speling rewrite log_config logio env setenvif mime status autoindex asis negotiation dir imap actions userdir so auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user cern_meta charset_lite dav_fs dav_lock dbd disk_cache dumpio ext_filter file_cache filter mem_cache mime_magic substitute unique_id version vhost_alias" APACHE2_MPMS="itk" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" 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" HUSKY_MODULES="areastat bsopack hpt hptkill hptsqfix hpucode htick nltools sqpack" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en ru" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="apm ark chips cirrus cyrix dummy fbdev glint i128 i740 intel mach64 mga neomagic nsc nv r128 radeon rendition s3 s3virge savage siliconmotion sis sisusb tdfx tga trident tseng v4l vesa via vmware nouveau" 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, USE_PYTHON
How about we assume it isn't an actual memory problem, but a storage problem - is there enough disk space left? (If so, this still isn't a problem in sys-kernel/gentoo-sources, but we'd be getting somewhere.)
There is about 120Gb free at / partition. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 292G 158G 119G 58% / /dev/root 292G 158G 119G 58% / rc-svcdir 1.0M 160K 864K 16% /lib/rc/init.d cgroup_root 10M 0 10M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev 10M 184K 9.9M 2% /dev none 1013M 0 1013M 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 130M 42M 82M 34% /boot
And I neither think it's a gentoo-sources problem. It should be something connected with python's memory management. But it is a problem because I use most of sources from a latest stable portage tree.
After I did swapoff and swapon the kernel was emerged successfully (without reboot). But I'm sure it'll be happen again when the next update will be available...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 346749 ***
