broken xterm and portupgrade stuck in a loop

2004-10-16 Thread h
on a 4.10-STABLE system on an old celeron 400 laptop, i have XFree 4.4:

~  ls /var/db/pkg/X
XFree86-4.4.0_1,1   XFree86-font75dpi-4.3.0
XFree86-FontServer-4.3.0_2  XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.3.0
XFree86-NestServer-4.4.0XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.3.0
XFree86-PrintServer-4.4.0   XFree86-fontEncodings-4.3.0
XFree86-Server-4.3.0_10 XFree86-fontScalable-4.3.0
XFree86-VirtualFramebufferServer-4.4.0  XFree86-libraries-4.4.0_1
XFree86-clients-4.3.0_3 XFree86-manuals-4.4.0
XFree86-documents-4.4.0 Xaw3d-1.5
XFree86-font100dpi-4.3.0Xft-2.1.2

but when i try to start a xterm in X, i get:

/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexpat.so.4 not found, required by 
xterm

but libexpat is actually installed: /var/db/pkg/expat-1.95.8

when i build any port, i get:

===  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found

at the beginning of make. i don't know if that's related.

so i want to try portupgrade -a after pkgdb -F returns no error and my ports 
tree updated.

portupgrade produces no output and seems to be stuck in a loop. so i 
repeatedly hit ps ax | grep ports to see what it's doing and here is what i 
get:

sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93129  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/audio/cdparanoia  make -V 
PKGNA
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93158  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/audio/esound  make -V PKGNAME 
2
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93187  v1  S+ 0:00.00 sh -c cd /usr/ports/audio/libaudiofile  make -V 
PKG
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93216  v1  S+ 0:00.00 sh -c cd /usr/ports/converters/libiconv  make -V 
PK
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93245  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/devel/ORBit2  make -V PKGNAME 
2
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93274  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/devel/autoconf253  make -V 
PKGN
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93297  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/devel/automake15  make -V 
PKGNA
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93341  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/devel/fam  make -V PKGNAME 
2/d
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
93370  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/devel/gconf2  make -V PKGNAME 
2
sidewinder# ps ax | grep
  330  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins 
  508  v1  S+ 0:00.33 make 
PARENT_CHECKED=/usr/ports/devel/gmake /usr/ports
  517  v1  S+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh -ec 
checked=/usr/ports/devel/gmake /usr/port
  518  v1  S+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh -ec 
checked=/usr/ports/devel/gmake /usr/port
  563  v1  R+ 0:00.09 make 
PARENT_CHECKED=/usr/ports/devel/pkgconfig  /usr/
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
  330  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins 
  508  v1  S+ 0:00.33 make 
PARENT_CHECKED=/usr/ports/devel/gmake /usr/ports
  517  v1  S+ 0:00.00 /bin/sh -ec 
checked=/usr/ports/devel/gmake /usr/port
  518  v1  S+ 0:00.01 /bin/sh -ec 
checked=/usr/ports/devel/gmake /usr/port
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
  330  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins 
sidewinder# ps ax | grep ports
  330  v1  S+ 0:00.01 sh -c cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins 
  776  v1  R+ 0:00.00 /usr/bin/grep -qwv /usr/ports/dev

as i'm writing this it's been running 45 minutes. ports names seem to come 
back. is that normal ? how long should i leave portupgrader speechless before 
i consider it crashed ? how do i fix my ports tree ?
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broken xterm.

2003-01-05 Thread lewiz
Hi,

  For some reason my xterm seems to have broken.  I'm sure it was
working perfectly well earlier on today but now I can't run xterm
without it disappearing/closing.  It doesn't even show up in a ps aux so
it appears it's just started then closed.  Only root is able to start an
xterm.  Any ideas?

-lewiz.

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Re: broken xterm.

2003-01-05 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 08:30:50PM +, lewiz wrote:
 Hi,
 
   For some reason my xterm seems to have broken.  I'm sure it was
 working perfectly well earlier on today but now I can't run xterm
 without it disappearing/closing.  It doesn't even show up in a ps aux so
 it appears it's just started then closed.  Only root is able to start an
 xterm.  Any ideas?
 
 -lewiz.

No messages in any of the log?  Try launching it from a console
with something like `xterm -display :0` and see if you get any error
messages on the console.

Nathan



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