"ls -la" hangs in genkernel-3.4.0

[g.tomassoni]

Dears,

I sometime get a problem using genkernel on a system with a reiserfs root fs: during the "module-init-tools: >> Configuring" phase, genkernel hangs.

I found this to happen when genkernel runs the "./configure" script in the "${MODULE_INIT_TOOLS_DIR}". The script hangs in a "ls -T" command.

I then tried to see why, so I unpacked the genkernel copy of the module-init-tools package (/usr/share/genkernel/pkg/module-init-tools-0.9.15-pre4.tar.bz2), cd into it and tried to issue an "ls -la". As expected, the command hang.

Trying to find why, it turned out to be the fact that the module-init-tools-0.9.15-pre4.tar.bz2 tarball contains files with owner uid 1000 and group gid 1000. If i change ownership and groupship to, say, 0 and 0, the "ls -la" command terminates as expected.

Of course, I'm doing a bzipped tarball of the chown'd directory in order to substitute the current usr/share/genkernel/pkg/module-init-tools-0.9.15-pre4.tar.bz2 with it. This should easily fix my genkernel issue.

However, I'm trying to figure out why this happens: is it my sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1 package? Is it a reiserfs bug in my gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r13? Is it sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r4 problem?

Is there anybody else experiencing the same?

Regards.

PS: The reiserfs module in the running os (a gentoo-sources-2.6.16-r13) is configured this way:

CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set
# CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_SECURITY=y
# CONFIG_JFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=y

[g.tomassoni]

Well, I just found it is the fact that my /etc/passwd and my /etc/group miss respectively the uid 1000 and gid 1000. Adding it to them solved the problem. This probably means that the reiserfs module is not involved in the problem.

Now the trouble is restricted to the following two packages:

- sys-apps/coreutils-5.94-r1
- sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r4

Which one?

Please note I'm using nscd from sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r4.

[g.tomassoni]

Found. Misconfigured /etc/nsswitch.conf...

Bye!