From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 11 17:27:09 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBF23106566C for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:27:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net) Received: from mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2968FC50 for ; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:27:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smoochies.rachie.is-a-geek.net (mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.11]) by mailhub.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1ECF7E818; Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:27:07 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel Flynn To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:27:06 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (FreeBSD/8.0-BETA2; KDE/4.2.4; i386; ; ) References: <4A814C91.5000909@intersonic.se> <200908110714.58168.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <4A81A227.50300@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <4A81A227.50300@intersonic.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908110927.06911.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> Cc: Subject: Re: Error code 254 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: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:27:10 -0000 On Tuesday 11 August 2009 08:53:59 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 August 2009 02:48:49 Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > >> ===> Installing documentation in > >> /usr/local/share/doc/pear/XML_Serializer. ===> Installing tests in > >> /usr/local/share/pear/tests/XML_Serializer. ===> Installing examples in > >> /usr/local/share/examples/pear/XML_Serializer. *** Error code 254 > >> > >> > >> What is "Error code 254" ? > > > > A program returning -2 to the shell. Is that useful info? No. > > Run make -dl install to see what goes wrong. > > is this useful? > > /bin/mkdir -p /usr/local/share/pear/packages/pear-XML_Serializer-0.20.0 > install -o root -g wheel -m 444 > /usr/ports/devel/pear-XML_Serializer/work/package.xml > /usr/local/share/pear/packages/pear-XML_Serializer-0.20.0 > /usr/bin/env PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local /bin/sh > /usr/ports/devel/pear/pear-install pear-XML_Serializer-0.20.0 POST-INSTALL > *** Error code 254 Yes, the post install script fails. Which means the command: /usr/local/bin/pear install -r -n -f \ /usr/local/share/pear/packages/pear-XML_Serializer-0.20.0/package.xml fails. Why, I don't know, perhaps you can add -v to the above command and see if anything useful is printed. In the meantime, I'll try to reproduce it. -- Mel