From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 11 02:53:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B01D16A41F for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 02:53:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.36.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 085AD43D46 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2005 02:53:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from adamw@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 47027 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2005 02:53:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.140?) (tacopants@rogers.com@70.28.168.125 with plain) by smtp103.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 11 Oct 2005 02:53:53 -0000 Message-ID: <434B2940.2020008@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:53:52 -0400 From: Adam Weinberger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.4.1 (Macintosh/20051005) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Hopkins References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bpm problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 02:53:54 -0000 Michael Hopkins wrote: > > Hi all > > I have been enjoying the use of bpm for some time now as my way of > navigating the ports collection on FreeBSD. > > For some reason today it crashed with a core dump about 3/4 of the way > through updating its' database when I first ran it. This happened several > times in a row, even after a reboot, so I suspected the ports database may > have got corrupted and did a 'pkgdb -F' and a 'cd /usr/ports/; make > fetchindex' but still no joy with bpm. I have not made any changes to the > system recently and I'm on AMD64 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #2 > > Does anyone have any ideas that would help get it running again? Maybe it > has a database somewhere that can be renovated. Alternatively, are there > any other ports that offer a GUI interface for working with ports? > > Many thanks > > Michael Michael - Seth, the maintainer of sysutils/bpm, is a really good guy who sometimes just needs a kick in the behind to fix bpm-related problems. I'm sure that if you send him an email with a more detailed report and a backtrace of the core dump, he'll be very responsive in fixing the problem. One problem with bpm is that whenever the INDEX structure changes, bpm's code needs to be updated accordingly. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx