From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 10 15:23:18 2002 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 44CDB37B400 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:23:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nemesis.systems.pipex.net (nemesis.systems.pipex.net [62.241.160.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58DB243E72 for ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:23:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stacey@Demon.vickiandstacey.com) Received: from Demon (81-86-129-77.dsl.pipex.com [81.86.129.77]) by nemesis.systems.pipex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1551116007C15; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:21:33 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: portsdb -Uu returns multiple "make: fatal errors encountered --cannot continue: malformed entry: make: fatal errors encountered -- cannotcontinue" statements From: Stacey Roberts Reply-To: sroberts@dsl.pipex.com To: "Jack L. Stone" Cc: Adam Weinberger , sroberts@dsl.pipex.com, FreeBSD Questions In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020910170847.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net> References: <1031693394.345.71.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020910192823.133da9e5.freebsd@secspace.de> <1031603775.345.27.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020910192823.133da9e5.freebsd@secspace.de> <3.0.5.32.20020910133217.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net> <1031682954.345.51.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020910201633.GE22427@vectors.cx> <1031691003.345.64.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <20020910212412.GF22427@vectors.cx> <1031693394.345.71.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> <3.0.5.32.20020910170847.00fbeac8@mail.sage-one.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-XcJJz8djQZtSX3BJ8b2x" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 10 Sep 2002 23:21:38 +0100 Message-Id: <1031696499.345.86.camel@Demon.vickiandstacey.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-XcJJz8djQZtSX3BJ8b2x Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Jack, Thanks for the comments. I should be sure to make you aware that the problems I am having center around what I believe to be a problem with my ports tree (/usr/ports) after running cvsup supfile (from cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org) last night. Following as I do the advice issued from this list time and time again, after doing my customary portsdb -Uu after cvsup, the output was almost all (as in the subject line) errors of a nature I'd never seen before (hence my post). Running pkgdb -F did not returned any inconsistencies, but running "make clean" in /usr/ports overnight crashed with the same errors as early as /usr/ports/chinese dir. Thinking (hoping) that it might be a one off, I restarted make clean, but it crashed again at the same point, and a third time (after another cvsup ports-supfile). Usually, I wouldn't be too concerned about portsdb -Uu returning errors, but its the fact that I now cannot run "make clean" that worries me. This is the situation I have, which (I believe) really related to a problem with the state of my "world" environment. I'd appreciate your thoughts though, on what I've described here., For Adam's information, portsdb -fUu returned the same errors as observed with portsdb -Uu, so I might as well attempt to rebuild the ports tree his way. Stacey On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 23:08, Jack L. Stone wrote: > At 02:35 PM 9.10.2002 -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >>> (09.10.2002 @ 1429 PST): Stacey Roberts said, in 5.5K: << > >> To be honest, I can't see how it could be anything else other than > >> something bad with what happened with the cvsup I did last night from > >> cvsup2.uk.FreeBSD.org. > > > >see, i don't know. from time to time, weird things like this just > >HAPPEN. sometimes portsdb -fUu, pkgdb -f, etc. will resolve the problem. > >i've never resolved it by hosing and reupdating the tree. > > > >> This procedure came to an end last night with all these errors. One > >> further thing - about your cvsup target: cvsup.FreeBSD.org. > >> Is this where I could ensure getting the latest ports tree from? > > > >not at all. it was just the easiest place to tell you to cvsup from. do > >you normally cvsup from /usr/share/examples/cvsup? if so, you should > >consider copying the supfile elsewhere and editing it, otherwise when > >you installworld you'll overwrite the changes you've made. > > > >-Adam > > >=20 > Stacey, I just returned to the list and see your further questions. In th= is > case, I would usually just use my standard sup-file after deleting the > /usr/ports (entirely) > # rm -rf /usr/ports > Then run the cvsup which would grap the latest ports too. Then be sure to= run > # make index > ...to make sure all is correct. Now try your "world" update again.... >=20 > If that didn't clear up the make/installworld, I'd delete /usr/src and > /usr/obj, then cvsup again.... ought to fix things..... >=20 >=20 > Best regards, > Jack L. Stone, > Administrator >=20 > SageOne Net > http://www.sage-one.net > jackstone@sage-one.net >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc (HONS) Computer Science Web: www.vickiandstacey.com --=-XcJJz8djQZtSX3BJ8b2x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 iQEVAwUAPX5wb5vQeubckvvXAQEyMAf/UtLHLPXlaJEEfpf53veGd03I+huDMYt9 8ANGb+KpF4O4ODLLXN0voozqbEQ4YUENNsIGmeNNwc1IaB8wvuPD9qai8QdPVycN nb1AvZtUzF0L6CR0eHOC39fXDye1bsxfKMDnSnmX+T39e9ZvoIdUrIp8ozzKcphk +lDJawtKer8oYLAIYPnIcwUMirTNL2xCCF+Zl7n68bKLiKspTj1VBmq1rq5xGGJI Hr/kFp0pEOqPdtSxaIOEXXPmhFnTBnww1M6m603m8fozQvpQNR2aaVfrPv7seKqz 50LaypN+E/5I9yBtmC5bS1BKRv3bgLj2tmGf5lxe0eW/eOrMvJquDQ== =hqls -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XcJJz8djQZtSX3BJ8b2x-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message