Re: pkg_add hangs and consumes 100% CPU

["Kevin J. Woolley" <kjw%doglet.ca@localhost>]

On 2015-05-06 21:12, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:

> Hi,
> Trying to setup a bulkbuild environment using the
> pkgsrc/mk/pbulk/pbulk.sh on Suse Linux 12 running on Power8. The
> system hangs at the install stage of devel/ncurses and top shows
> pkg_add using 100% CPU
>
> => Checking for missing run-time search paths in ncurses-5.9nb4
> => Checking for work-directory references in ncurses-5.9nb4
> => Creating binary package
> /tmp/obj-pbulk/devel/ncurses/work/.packages/ncurses-5.9nb4.tgz
> ===> Install binary package of ncurses-5.9nb4
>
> Attaching to the pkg_add pid with gdb, I see
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0000000010096650 in mpool_get ()
> #1  0x0000000010093658 in __bt_search ()
> #2  0x000000001009318c in __bt_put ()
> #3  0x000000001000b614 in pkgdb_store ()
> #4  0x000000001000430c in extract_files ()
> #5  0x0000000010006fd0 in pkg_do ()
> #6  0x00000000100075a4 in pkg_perform ()
> #7  0x0000000010005650 in main ()
[...]
> If I bootstrap pkgsrc and attempt to install devel/ncurses manually,
> things work as intended. Any pointers appreciated.

Identical to the situation I discovered on armv7hf with Ubuntu. Packages 
with lots of files seem to be the major culprits -- ncurses, perl, and 
openssl were the ones I couldn't get past; one or more of the packages 
would always trigger this behaviour.

Cheers,

kjw