I have been running Gentoo for about a month on a G4/400Mz Newworld PowerMac audi root # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 cpu : 7400, altivec supported temperature : 23-25 C (uncalibrated) clock : 400MHz revision : 2.9 (pvr 000c 0209) bogomips : 794.62 total bogomips : 794.62 machine : PowerMac3,3 motherboard : PowerMac3,3 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh detected as : 65 (PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics) pmac flags : 00000004 L2 cache : 1024K unified memory : 256MB pmac-generation : NewWorld It is quite stable EXCEPT when I do emerge! In particular, 99% of the time it will hang the console when I do a simple "emerge --sync". This is never during the rsync part, but during the updating-cache part (metadata stage, I guess you call it). I have found I can work around the problem by keeping ssh going and doing the emerge work from there, but it's a poor work around because when emerge hangs the the console, it blanks the screen and it is not "unblankable." Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. On PPC Gentoo machine with Kernel 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 built using Genkernel 2. emerge --sync Actual Results: The display (Apple Studio Display--CRT) blanks and the front power button on the display turns orange, I believe indicating that it has lost a signal. The optical mouse's light is still on. Pressing any button on the keyboard does not "wake up" the display. However, if I have a ssh remote seesion going, I often (guessing 80% of the time) can continue using the machine. Expected Results: Obviously, finished the emerge. This bug has been discussed somewhat in the forums, where it appears someone else may have a similar problem, see http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-46428-highlight-.html audi root # emerge --info Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/ppc/2004.3, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc) =============================================================== == System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 ppc 7400, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 2 2005, 22:24:10)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r8 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/ kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=G4 -maltivec -mabi=altivec -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.du.se/pub/os/gentoo http://ds.thn.htu.se/linux/gentoo http:// mirror.pudas.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups dvd emboss esd fam font-server fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 jpeg kde kerberos libwww motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt readline spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xml2 xmms xprint xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92303 ***
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