On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +0000, Mick wrote: > >> >> This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was >> >> rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. >> > >> > At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it >> > just stops responding to keyboard and mouse, and the network >> > interface stops receiving packets so I can't ssh in from another box >> > to shut it down neatly. It's BRS time. >> >> No I couldn't. :-( >> >> The whole system would freeze up, no keyboard, no network, no nothing. >> I had to pull the plug every time. > > Not even Alt-SysRq? That's a serious lockup.
Yep, when that box locked up, it didn't do it by half. > You can still resume a merge after a power down, with > ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? -- Regards, Mick
