From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 27 08:29:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5401F16A4CE for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:29:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E828A43D5E for ; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:29:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbrown@orange.net) Received: from egginton.plus.com ([80.229.216.254] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1C0c72-000K7D-0m for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:29:32 +0000 Message-ID: <412EF0EA.3050207@orange.net> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 09:29:30 +0100 From: James Brown User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Portupgrade killed everytime X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 08:29:33 -0000 >> Try running it using strace, such as "strace portupgrade vim" and see >> what it's doing. I checked my kernel and found the PROCFS and PSUEDOFS options were in there. I have added this line to my fstab: "proc /proc procfs rw 0 0" I no longer see this message: > # strace portupgrade vim > strace: open("/proc/...", ...): No such file or directory > trouble opening proc file (Google was my friend here!) However, my problems seem far from over. When I run strace now (e.g. "strace -o /root/strace.out portupgrade vim"), nothing happens. Typing 'top' shows this line: PID USER PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 829 root 96 0 1352K 696K STOP 0:00 0.00% 0.00% strace or sometimes it looks like this: 838 root 8 0 1356K 704K pioctl 0:00 0.00% 0.00% strace but the strace tool just doesn't want to generate any output. Strangely, I don't even see ruby appear in the top output when I use strace. Please guys, I would be so grateful if someone could offer me any advice or suggestions on this. Kind regards, James.