From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 26 09:37:52 2005 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 0257E16A4CE for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:37:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sun13.bham.ac.uk (sun13.bham.ac.uk [147.188.128.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA2043D1D for ; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:37:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from calculus@softhome.net) Received: from [147.188.128.127] (helo=bham.ac.uk) by sun13.bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 1CtjcU-00051m-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:37:50 +0000 Received: from sci-fs1.bham.ac.uk ([147.188.118.71]) by bham.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1CtjcU-0002hP-76 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:37:50 +0000 Received: from SPECULUSHX1THE not authenticated [147.188.140.47] Novell NetWare; Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:37:49 +0000 Message-ID: <002c01c5038a$b9e28ed0$0201a8c0@SPECULUSHX1THE> From: "cali" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , "Bart Silverstrim" References: Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:38:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2527 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2527 X-BHAM-CUBE-wlist: LOCAL sci-fs1.bham.ac.uk X-BHAM-CUBE-processed: yes Subject: Re: portmanager loop? 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: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 09:37:52 -0000 >I had (have?) several packages in the ports collection that needed >updating, and recently someone in the list was talking about using >portmanager -u to save on problems with updating; it doesn't touch the >ports database, it won't mess up the collection, it walks dependencies >automagically, etc...should be as easy as "portmanager -u" and letting it >do it's magic, correct? I read the same thing, and thought I'd give it a shot. > On the Dell 2650 this is running on (FBSD 4.9) *seems* to keep > recompiling xfree86-4-server. Is there a way to tell if it is stuck in a > loop? I had to stop it yesterday after it had been upgrading for several > hours. The same thing happened to me. Not sure where it was stuck but I was getting a distinct sense of deja-vu watching the output (I don't really mean deja-vu but I can't think of a better way to say it). I left it for 30 hours, and then cancelled it. I'm going to try and run it again today, I'd like to know also if it will eventually get out of the loop, i.e if it is really a loop or something different. sorry that this post doesn't really help the situation cali