I've read in several forum posts lately about emerge not running and the problem comes down to dead emerge processes and remaining lockfiles.
Perhaps we should make an emaint module to search for and fix these. It should be easy enough. Quoting 2 posts from this forum thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-885066.html?sid=95544407ed19693f2e5dcae094efd977 adamf663 n00b n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2007 Posts: 11 PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2015 4:52 pm Post subject: a solution Reply with quote I had something similar after messing around with the '--jobs' option. No emerge would run after that. When I went to clear out /var/tmp/portage, I discovered a lockfile. Ran lsof and found an orphaned emerge. Killed it and emerges started running properly again. Back to top View user's profile Send private message ravloony n00b n00b Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 54 Location: France PostPosted: Fri Jan 15, 2016 9:38 am Post subject: Re: a solution Reply with quote adamf663 wrote: I had something similar after messing around with the '--jobs' option. No emerge would run after that. When I went to clear out /var/tmp/portage, I discovered a lockfile. Ran lsof and found an orphaned emerge. Killed it and emerges started running properly again. Just happened to me. Thanks for the writeup! _________________ No sig yet, sig ebuild up soon :-) -- Brian Dolbec <dolsen>
