From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 15 18:02:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45E1F106564A for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:02:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from DStaal@usa.net) Received: from mail.magehandbook.com (173-8-4-45-WashingtonDC.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [173.8.4.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C028FC12 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:02:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.50] (Mac-Pro.magehandbook.com [192.168.1.50]) by mail.magehandbook.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D838BF85 for ; Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:02:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:01:23 -0500 From: Daniel Staal To: FreeBSD Message-ID: <18121B8E00E7690C5FB44C5C@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> In-Reply-To: <20120115122547.0b71e16c@scorpio> References: <40F552CF734E955EB7878763@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20120115103332.09d5f2ca@scorpio> <329BBA85301E2290BF6E0570@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> <20120115122547.0b71e16c@scorpio> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: Portmanager Status Report Gone X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:02:05 -0000 --As of January 15, 2012 12:25:47 PM -0500, Jerry is alleged to have said: > Well, you might try and deinstall and then reinstall "portmanager". > Perhaps something got corrupted, although I don't know why that might > have happened. No joy. Worth a try though. ;) My suspicion is that it's a permissions issue someplace, somehow: I was trying portmaster in it's 'run as wheel, sudo to root when needed' mode, and it kept throwing permissions errors at me which I fixed for a while. (Before reverting to just running it as root.) Of course, I'm running *portmanager* as root, so... (Both under sudo, and from root's cron.) > I have "BATCH=yes" set in the "/etc/make.conf" file to avoid receiving > those annoying "config screens." Of course that does require you to > insure that your ports are configured the way you want them prior to > updating them. I don't find it a problem; however, others might. Interesting. I'll keep that in mind. Something to take a look at once I've gotten this solved. ;) > By the way, how do you update your ports tree? Perhaps something got > corrupted there. I use portsnap myself, so you could use it to just > create a new tree thereby over writing the old one. Just a thought. I have csup set to run once a week in cron. I don't think that corrupted anything: `portmanager -s -y` ran fine before I ran portmaster, and I didn't update the tree in between. But blowing away the tree and re-creating it is starting to sound like something worth a try. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. ---------------------------------------------------------------