Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 05:06:45 -0700 From: Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Synth update-system again fails with recursive crash [Was: Re: ] Message-ID: <CAEC7391k3ah=218F2-z1UVNy5AeNx3VPs3OS1ohOo81AjFZ9oQ@mail.gmail.com>
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sorribouthat! on the lack of a Subject: line in my previous post! My bad. On 6/1/20, Donald Wilde <dwilde1@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, my good friends - > > I hope all are well! > > I did a synth update from my root user on my 12-STABLE system, with > the following results: I pulled down the source of the World again and my i3 mule labored mightily much of the day yesterday and all night until almost 3 am building World and Kernel. :) Installed both using Handbook procedures. Once again, > > 'portsnap fetch update' succeeded > > 'synth upgrade-system' failed. I ran it again, capturing the output: > This process failed again with the same results as attached to my previous message.. Thinking I might resolve the issue myself by using 'pkg install xyz', I ran pkg install doxygen >& doxygen_fail.txt (note: this is tcsh, not BASH!) ... and received the following results. <quote> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. Updating Synth repository catalogue... pkg: file:///var/synth/live_packages/meta.txz: No such file or directory repository Synth has no meta file, using default settings pkg: file:///var/synth/live_packages/packagesite.txz: No such file or directory Unable to update repository Synth Error updating repositories! </quote> I am willing to live without an updated ports tree, but how can I resolve the issue with the Synth repo so I can use 'pkg install'? I only need to install a few dozen ports from source for my work, but not having pkg working is definitely a source of dismay. TIA, good Beasties! :D -- Don Wilde **************************************************** * What is the Internet of Things but a system * * of systems including humans? * ****************************************************
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