Waiting for DISTCACHE lock... for 10 minutes

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 23:46 +0300, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> About a week back my i386 tinderbox machine (SMP+PAE) crashed rather
> badly.
> After getting it up again I also made and installed new word and kernel.
> 
> Since then, it seems, for each port build, I'm seeing in
> /usr/local/tinderbox/builds/4-STABLE-i386-myPT/make.0
> a lot of:
> INFO: Waiting for DISTCACHE lock...
> for 10 minutes, after which it builds the port.
> 
> I'm using nullfs:
> /usr/ports/distfiles on /usr/local/tinderbox/4-STABLE-i386-myPT/distcache (nullfs, local)
>  /usr/local/tinderbox/portstrees/myPT/ports on /usr/local/tinderbox/4-STABLE-i386-myPT/a/ports (nullfs,local)
>  /usr/local/tinderbox/jails/4 on /usr/local/tinderbox/4-STABLE-i386-myPT/usr/src (nullfs, local)
> devfs on /usr/local/tinderbox/4-STABLE-i386-myPT/dev (devfs, local)
> linprocfs on /usr/local/tinderbox/4-STABLE-i386-myPT/compat/linux/proc (linprocfs, local)
> procfs on /usr/local/tinderbox/4-STABLE-i386-myPT/proc (procfs, local)
> 
> The ports are build via a script that invokes tindy as:
>  ./tc addPort -b ${_build} -r -d ${PORT}
>  ./tinderbuild -noduds -onceonly -nullfs -b ${_build} ${PORT}
> 
> 
> Where should I start digging to fix this ? Why 10 minutes ? Could it be
> some leftover from the crash or rather some of the changes in the OS
> (the were a few commits related to *fs since the old kernel and the
> current one).

This was been fixed in HEAD, but for some reason I haven't ported the
fix back yet.  Without any builds running, do the following:

find /path/to/distcache -type f -name .lock -delete

That should fix the problem.

Joe

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