On 02/01/2012 10:05 AM, Thanasis wrote:
Has anyone ever seen the following strange behaviour?
While updating the system with emerge, after each installation of a
package, before it starts emerging the next one, it pauses for a minute
or two, then displays "alarm signal" (without the quotes) on a new line,
and continues to emerging the next package.
Hi Thanasis,
this message is from emerge /portage:
grep -r "alarm signal" /usr/lib64/portage/*
Binary file /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/exception.pyo matches
Binary file /usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/exception.pyc matches
/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/exception.py: raise
AlarmSignal("alarm signal",
This one matches your one minute:
/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/elog/mod_mail_summary.py:
AlarmSignal.register(60)
Look like a timeout during mail sending to me. You have probably elog
mail sending configured in make.conf and your mailserver is borked.
HTH,
Matthias
Here is an example:
Emerging (2 of 9) perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0
* IPC-Cmd-0.76.tar.gz RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...
[ ok ]
Unpacking source...
Unpacking IPC-Cmd-0.76.tar.gz to
/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/work
Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/work
Preparing source in
/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/work/IPC-Cmd-0.76 ...
Source prepared.
Configuring source in
/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/work/IPC-Cmd-0.76 ...
* Using ExtUtils::MakeMaker
* perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr INSTALLDIRS=vendor INSTALLMAN3DIR=none
DESTDIR=/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/image/
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for IPC::Cmd
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
Source configured.
Compiling source in
/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/work/IPC-Cmd-0.76 ...
* emake OTHERLDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed
make -j5 'OTHERLDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed'
cp lib/IPC/Cmd.pm blib/lib/IPC/Cmd.pm
Source compiled.
Test phase [not enabled]: perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0
Install IPC-Cmd-0.760.0 into
/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/image/ category perl-core
make -j5 pure_install
Installing
/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/image/usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.4/IPC/Cmd.pm
Completed installing IPC-Cmd-0.760.0 into
/var/tmp/portage/perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/image/
ecompressdir: bzip2 -9 /usr/share/doc
Done.
Installing (2 of 9) perl-core/IPC-Cmd-0.760.0
alarm signal
Emerging (3 of 9) virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0
Unpacking source...
Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/work
Compiling source in
/var/tmp/portage/virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/work ...
Source compiled.
Test phase [not enabled]: virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0
Install perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0 into
/var/tmp/portage/virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/image/ category virtual
Completed installing perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0 into
/var/tmp/portage/virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0/image/
Done.
Installing (3 of 9) virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.760.0
alarm signal
Emerging (4 of 9) x11-libs/pixman-0.24.2
....
