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Date:      Sun, 8 Feb 2004 16:42:33 -0500
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
Cc:        freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org
Subject:    Re: portupgrade -rf gettext -m BATCH=yes fails at gnomemeeting stage
Message-ID:  <20040208214233.GR3365@toxic.magnesium.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040208212558.GP38997@crom.vickiandstacey.com>
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>> (02.08.2004 @ 1625 PST): Stacey Roberts said, in 4.1K: <<
> Hello Adam,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>"
> To: To Stacey Roberts
> Date: Sun, 08 Feb, 2004 17:23 GMT
> Subject: Re: portupgrade -rf gettext -m BATCH=yes fails at gnomemeeting stage
> 
> > >> (02.08.2004 @ 0625 PST): Stacey Roberts said, in 15K: <<
> > > Hello Adam,
> > > 
> > > I've just ran the commands that Mezz recommended, with the same results, same errors:
> > > 
> > > # portsclean -C
> > > Cleaning out /usr/ports/*/*/work...
> > > Delete /usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting/work
> > > done.
> > > Demon# portupgrade -f gnomemeeting\*
> > > --->  Upgrading 'gnomemeeting-0.98.5_1' to 'gnomemeeting-0.98.5_2' (net/gnomemeeting)
> > > --->  Building '/usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting'
> > > ===>  Cleaning for gnomemeeting-0.98.5_2
> > > ===>  Vulnerability check disabled
> > > ===>  Extracting for gnomemeeting-0.98.5_2
> > > >> Checksum OK for gnomemeeting-0.98.5.tar.bz2.
> > > ===>  Patching for gnomemeeting-0.98.5_2
> > > ===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for gnomemeeting-0.98.5_2
> > > ===>   gnomemeeting-0.98.5_2 depends on file: /nonexistent - found
> > >
> > > <snip, snip>
> > >
> > > checking for PTLib includes...
> > > checking for /usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting/../../devel/pwlib/work/pwlib/include/ptlib/pprocess.h... no
> > > configure: error: You need PTLib's header files to build GnomeMeeting
> > > ===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
> > > Please report the problem to roger@FreeBSD.org [maintainer] and attach the
> > > "/usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting/work/gnomemeeting-0.98.5/config.log" including
> > > the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea
> > > to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
> > > /var/db/pkg`).
> > > *** Error code 1
> > >   
> > > Stop in /usr/ports/net/gnomemeeting.
> > > ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade63486.0 make
> > > ** Fix the problem and try again.
> > > ** The following packages were not installed or upgraded (*:skipped / !:failed)
> > >         ! net/gnomemeeting (gnomemeeting-0.98.5_1)      (configure error)
> > > #
> > > 
> > > What would then be the best way forward now?
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > 
> > > Stacey
> > >> end of "Re: portupgrade -rf gettext -m BATCH=yes fails at gnomemeeting stage" from Stacey Roberts <<
> > 
> > Stacey -
> > 
> > If you have a file /nonexistent on your system, delete it.
> > 
> 
> Err.., I've just noticed that there are two similarly sounding dirs:
> ~ $ ls /
> COPYRIGHT       dev             kernel.GENERIC  nonexistant     stand
> bin             dist            kernel.old      nonexistent     sys
> boot            etc             mnt             proc            tmp
> cdrom           home            modules         root            usr
> compat          kernel          modules.old     sbin            var
> stacey@Demon ~ $
> 
> One was produced when I created a machine account (this server acts as the samba PDC here on my network):
> stacey@Demon ~ $ ls -la /nonexistent/
> total 20
> drwxr-xr-x   2 <snipped>$       <snipped>$       512 Nov 30 13:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x  20 root       wheel      512 Dec  6 18:27 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 <snipped>$  <snipped>$  771 Nov 30 13:30 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r--   1 <snipped>$  <snipped>$  255 Nov 30 13:30 .login
> -rw-r--r--   1 <snipped>$  <snipped>$  165 Nov 30 13:30 .login_conf
> -rw-------   1 <snipped>$  <snipped>$  371 Nov 30 13:30 .mail_aliases
> -rw-r--r--   1 <snipped>$  <snipped>$  331 Nov 30 13:30 .mailrc
> -rw-r--r--   1 <snipped>$  <snipped>$  801 Nov 30 13:30 .profile
> -rw-------   1 <snipped>$  <snipped>$  276 Nov 30 13:30 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r--   1 <snipped>$  <snipped>$  852 Nov 30 13:30 .shrc
> stacey@Demon ~ $
> 
> So.., I'm not sure of the meaning behind your thinking that I should blast this dir
> 
> Do get back to me on this.., I'm very intrigued by this suggestion.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stacey
>> end of "Re: portupgrade -rf gettext -m BATCH=yes fails at gnomemeeting stage" from Stacey Roberts <<

Yes. You should not have a user with /nonexistent as its home dir.
Change that user's homedir to something else and remove /nonexistent and
gnomemeeting will build fine.

This sort of thing is why homedirs go under /home or /usr/home.

# Adam


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