7.0-BETA1 freeze using portmaster

[Doug Barton]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 23:05:06 -0700 (PDT)
> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Robert Marella wrote:
>>
>>> Aloha
>>>
>>> [robert at p4] ~> uname -a
>>> FreeBSD p4.konav201.local 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #2: Mon Oct 29
>>> 07:58:19 HST 2007     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>>>
>>> This was a fresh install of 7 from a couple of months ago when it
>>> was -current. I have been updating
>>
>> src, ports, or both?
>
> It was a clean install. I backed up my data and did a new install from
> a snapshot iso. I reinstalled all 3rd party software from ports.

Ok.

>> What happens if you just run 'pkg_create -b <portname
>> from /var/db/pkg>'? I strongly suspect that this is a problem with
>> your pkg_create binary, since that's all portmaster is doing in that
>> spot. If the pkg_create command failed then you would see an error
>> message and portmaster would exit.
>
> Okay, I just did that from my /root directory and it worked.

Well, that's good news I suppose. Please install the latest (1.24) 
version of portmaster, and try again, with and without the -B flag and let 
me know how it goes.

> Thank you for responding. Does this mean that I alone am experiencing
> this problem?

Yes.

> One other thing, I replaced my video card last week with an NVIDIA
> card. I installed the nvidia port which brought in linux ports and
> compat5x. Could this have messed up my libraries?

Highly unlikely, but thanks for mentioning it.

Doug

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