Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:43:14 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why This Infinite Loop?? Message-ID: <200608210943.16360.gerard@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <44E9B456.8030705@2012.vi> References: <44E9B456.8030705@2012.vi>
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--nextPart1862980.Hk5f80U7Bd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 21 August 2006 09:25, beno wrote: > I successfully rebuilt FreeBSD from 5.3 to 6.1. However, when I ran > portmanager -u > my server went into an infinite loop! It kept reinstalling Bind and I > think Perl. I don't think it installed anything more than that. I had > run this command: > make delete-old-libs > but also had added the lib diff file between 5 and 6 (forget its name) > so I had most of my lib files that I needed, and everything seems to be > running okay. Then again, maybe I've missed something. > > Why did this command create an infinite loop (that lasted 6 hours before > I killed it)? Is there a better program/command I should use? How do I > d/l that program? > TIA, Do you have the latest version of 'portmanager' installed? There was an old= er=20 version that had this bug, but it was fixed. I would recommend that you update your ports and then make sure you have th= e=20 latest version of 'portmanager' installed. Then run: portmanager -u -f -l -y That will create a log file "/var/log/portmanager.log" that you can inspect= =20 later to see what happened if it goes into an infinite loop again, HTH =2D-=20 Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net A Riverside, California, health ordinance states that two persons may not kiss each other without first wiping their lips with carbolized rosewater. --nextPart1862980.Hk5f80U7Bd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBE6bh0s3R1WQUU6lgRAobEAKDGJj6ojkOOyKgN2BD8KmNhQNQ29ACggXPJ +i56LN/8/Eb0o0WTtQrDlfo= =X/cO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1862980.Hk5f80U7Bd--
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