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SubjectStrange intermittent EIO error when writing to stdout since v3.8.0
Since v3.8.0 several people reported intermittent IO errors that happen
during high system load while using "emerge" under Gentoo:
...
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/_eventloop/EventLoop.py", line 260, in iteration
if not x.callback(f, event, *x.args):
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/util/_async/PipeLogger.py", line 99, in _output_handler
stdout_buf[os.write(stdout_fd, stdout_buf):]
File "/usr/lib64/portage/pym/portage/__init__.py", line 246, in __call__
rval = self._func(*wrapped_args, **wrapped_kwargs)
OSError: [Errno 5] Input/output error

Basically 'emerge' just writes the build output to stdout in a loop:
...
def _output_handler(self, fd, event):

background = self.background
stdout_fd = self.stdout_fd
log_file = self._log_file

while True:
buf = self._read_buf(fd, event)

if buf is None:
# not a POLLIN event, EAGAIN, etc...
break

if not buf:
# EOF
self._unregister()
self.wait()
break

else:
if not background and stdout_fd is not None:
failures = 0
stdout_buf = buf
while stdout_buf:
try:
stdout_buf = \
stdout_buf[os.write(stdout_fd, stdout_buf):]
except OSError as e:
if e.errno != errno.EAGAIN:
raise
...

see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459674

(A similar issue also happens when building Firefox since v3.8.0. But
because Firefox's build process doesn't raise an exception it just dies
at random points without giving a clue.)

Now the question is: Could this be a kernel bug? Maybe in the TTY layer?

Unfortunately the issue is not easily reproducible and a git-bisect is
out of the question.

--
Markus


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