After watching a compile of media-libs/jpeg I noticed the process was running for over 12 hours. I reattached my screen to find the loop below. I searched for that lockfile on my system and it was nowhere to be found. <--8<---snip---8<---> creating jconfig.h libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -c ./jcapimin.c libtool --mode=compile i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -I. -c ./jcapistd.c Waiting for jcapimin.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapistd.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapimin.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapistd.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapimin.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapistd.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapimin.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapistd.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapimin.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapistd.o.lock to be removed </snip> I do have an extensive $USE flag, if this is not a recommended setup, my appologies. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="-3dfx -3dnow -X -Xaw3d acl acpi -adabas -adns -afs -aim -alsa -altivec apache2 -apm -arts atlas -audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb -bidi -birdstep -bmp -bonobo -boundschecking bzlib -calendar -canna caps cdb cdr -cjk -cpdflib crypt cscope ctype -cups curl curlwrappers -db2 -dba -dbase -dbm -dbmaker -dbx dedi cated -dga dio -directfb -divx4linux -doc dvb dvd -dvdr -emacs -emacs-w3 -empress -empress-bcs encode -esd -esoob ethereal -ev6 -ev0 exif -fam -fastcgi fbcon -fdf tk -fftw -filepro -firebird -flac flash -flatfile -foomaticdb freetds -freewnn -frontbase ftp -gb gd -gd-external gdbm -gtk -gnustep ipv6 -kde -mozilla -mssql mys ql ncurses pcre pfpro php python readline -qt -portaudio samba session simplexml snmp sqlite ssl svga tcpd tidy tokenizer vhosts -wxwindows xml xml2 xmlrpc -xmms -xosd -xprint xsl -yahoo -dvb" 2. emerge mod_php Actual Results: Waiting for jcapistd.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapimin.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapistd.o.lock to be removed Waiting for jcapimin.o.lock to be removed Expected Results: should have installed properly. Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5, glibc-2.3.4.20040808- r1, 2.6.10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III CPU - S 1133MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 24 2005, 12:48:52)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r5 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.2-r7 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.21-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/ config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 acl acpi apache2 atlas avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib caps cated cdb cdr crypt cscope ctype curl curlwrappers dedi dio dvd encode ethereal exif f77 fbcon flash font-server fortran freetds ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg mys ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre pdflib p erl pfpro php png python ql quicktime readline samba sdl session simplexml snmp spell sqlite ssl svga tcpd tidy tk tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1- fonts vhosts xml xml2 xmlrpc xsl xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78814 ***