From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 28 18:08:12 2010 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 959581065672 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:08:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from foepah@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C0ED8FC13 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:08:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so1823922bwz.13 for ; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:08:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:subject:from:to:cc :in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version :x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Kx6m1rIeh6woVAlePhY11LM0t3spI649aagX7NOayg4=; b=T0PwTtib7UkEEmIzyfBBDuhv8GnIGq2EL59NyM+36qbGJnVZkw9RKnUCYm8wlxwEGo OFQB1Si/tiTfa8cSpfSQBoDXq83FL5sm9SvuRVmYC5mOLozdToKEi4D8htlskw6hlnCI 1QtT9VIbma6dUl0+YDLMbCjrCehCzpXuBIPBc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:from:to:cc:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date :message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=BaeJ5m7jlgayyKfSVRr3g9bU6Gnw3v/qiwTodVX4lT6k/hiJz46fR0pfEZf6NDvulM Z4YwLBocJESbQQUgF43CP4pzVXNO11OilcfDB4xcLONIbC+RMzSSK2Dplxs2kyqwDCIW iPurRLyOjWhKMzWHLw0rwgd+V1pCqTCFUi3CA= Received: by 10.204.98.15 with SMTP id o15mr8746549bkn.136.1288289290847; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.2.15] (c-174-59-62-195.hsd1.pa.comcast.net [174.59.62.195]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p2sm628848fak.22.2010.10.28.11.08.07 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:08:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Spangler To: Arthur Chance In-Reply-To: <4CC9B5C3.7020600@qeng-ho.org> References: <1288284970.1718.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4CC9B5C3.7020600@qeng-ho.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 14:07:06 -0400 Message-ID: <1288289226.1681.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Port update problem? 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: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:08:12 -0000 You are correct I meant chapter 4. Just out of curiosity is your INDEX intact or is that the cause of the odd behavior of /etc/periodic/weekly/400.status-pkg, portion of the problem. I understand that it is not the root cause of your problem just a symptom. On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 18:41 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 10/28/10 17:56, Doug Spangler wrote: > > Fetch the current INDEX as well, that happens when there isn't a proper > > INDEX. Also take a look at the FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 5 and the man > > page for portsnap > > The command (it's portsnap wrapped up with start & finish time messages > that can be run from cron) has worked perfectly correctly for weeks, > with no problems. What I'm interested in is why it failed this time when > it seemed to behave no differently from any time before, with no error > messages. > > BTW, Handbook contents: 5 The X Window System > > Methinks you mean Chapter 4, which I'm familiar with, ditto portsnap. I > switched to using it rather than csup months ago, and it's been > faultless until now. I probably should have copied cperciva on the > initial post. >