Crash When "make index" - Repair Needed?

Kevin Kinsey kdk at daleco.biz
Sun Oct 23 20:21:00 PDT 2005


Richard Collyer wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My box (5.4 Stable) has taken to crashing when I do a make
> index (in /usr/ports) after a cvsup ports upgrade. I think the
> problem may be down to overheating as it only does this when
> the server is put under considerable stress (I take it that
> make index is stressful on the PC) and has done it before
> when I was doing some data manipulation which stressed
> it for an hour or so. After that I added some cooling which
> solved the problem...until now.
>
>
> My question is do I need to repair the index if the box crashes
> while making it? If so how do I do it. I read on google that 5.x
> doesnt need to make index in the same way as 4.x did so I am
> safe by not running the command?
>
>
> Cheers
> Richard



Sounds like a case for "make fetchindex", in which your box
will download INDEX-5 from a freebsd.org server instead of
building it from scratch.

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey


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