On Sep 21, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Sep 18, 2007, at 16:04, Michael D. Johas Teener wrote:
The last few installs that I have attempted have hung during the
activate
phase ... I have terminated the processes and tried an explicit
activate
command, but that hangs, too. Now I have a number of intalled-but-
inactive
ports hanging around. For instance:
mikes-brcm-mbp:~ mikejt$ port installed
The following ports are currently installed:
aquaterm @1.0.1_0+darwin_8
expat @2.0.0_1
expat @2.0.1_0 (active)
fontconfig @2.4.2_0+macosx
freetype @2.3.5_0
gawk @3.1.5_2 (active)
gettext @0.14.6_0
gettext @0.16.1_0 (active)
libiconv @1.10_1+darwin_8
libiconv @1.11_4+darwin_8 (active)
libpcap @0.9.5_1 (active)
pkgconfig @0.22_0+universal (active)
XFree86 @4.7.0_0+macosx (active)
zlib @1.2.3_1 (active)
mikes-brcm-mbp:~ mikejt$ sudo port activate freetype
---> Activating freetype
Then nothing ... just dead air .. same thing if I try to activate
aquaterm
...
Please try with debug and verbose output.
sudo port -dv activate freetype
Either it will show that something is progressing, though slowly,
in which case let it go, or it will hang at one spot, and if so,
show us the last few lines.
had similar problems. I did a little more testing and found this: if
for some reason a port is installed but cant be activated (call it
foo), then after that every time you try to update all outdated , the
message "Activating foo" will appear up to five times along with any
other update messages. On some occasions, an infinite loop will
occur with tclsh8.4 opening sh which opens tclsh8.4 which open
another sh which opens another ...... well you see what I mean.
You can reproduce this situation artificialy by doing a new macports
install, installing 1 aqua item then deleting /opt/local but not /
applications/MacPorts. Reinstall macports and try to install the
same aqua item. It will fail. then do an update outdated or activate
foo and you will eventually see the bug.
hope this is useful trouble shooting info
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