On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:58:02AM -0800, walt wrote: > On 02/20/2012 01:37 AM, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > Hello. > > > > Recently emerge behavior became strange on my ~amd64 system. When a > > package fails to compile, emerge does not terminate, but goes to 100% of > > CPU usage. Is anybody seeing this too? > > > > # emerge --version > > Portage 2.1.10.47 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.6.2, > > glibc-2.14.1-r2, 3.2.6-gentoo x86_64) > > No such problem on my ~amd64 (but I'm staying with gcc-4.5.3 for now). > > Portage is a collection of python scripts, so you might want to run > python-updater just for insurance. > > Which version of python is your portage using? (See the useflags on your > sys-apps/portage package.)
The problem seems to be fixed with the newer release of portage. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404995. Romildo