From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 24 03:21:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 8870016A41F for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:21:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1091843D46 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:20:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j9O3Kns3080614; Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:20:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <435C530C.8010300@daleco.biz> Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:20:44 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.11) Gecko/20050923 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Richard Collyer References: <435BCCA5.6060502@firebadger.net> In-Reply-To: <435BCCA5.6060502@firebadger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash When "make index" - Repair Needed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:21:00 -0000 Richard Collyer wrote: > Hello, > > My box (5.4 Stable) has taken to crashing when I do a make > index (in /usr/ports) after a cvsup ports upgrade. I think the > problem may be down to overheating as it only does this when > the server is put under considerable stress (I take it that > make index is stressful on the PC) and has done it before > when I was doing some data manipulation which stressed > it for an hour or so. After that I added some cooling which > solved the problem...until now. > > > My question is do I need to repair the index if the box crashes > while making it? If so how do I do it. I read on google that 5.x > doesnt need to make index in the same way as 4.x did so I am > safe by not running the command? > > > Cheers > Richard Sounds like a case for "make fetchindex", in which your box will download INDEX-5 from a freebsd.org server instead of building it from scratch. HTH, Kevin Kinsey