awk hanging

[Krassimir Slavchev]

Hi,

I have the same problem when installing perl-5.8.8. top shows:

13390 root        1 121    0  5768K  1380K RUN     42:26 98.10% awk

The process is still running, let me know if I can help?

Olivier Houchard wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 02:31:27PM -1000, David Cornejo wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to build and install some ports on an Avila board - 
>> however with certain  packages (i.e. ruby) it gets to the install 
>> phase and awk goes into a state where it's constantly running and 
>> never comes out (I let it run for four days and then killed it).  I 
>> have reproduced this in both stable and current.  Gdb in current 
>> fails to attach to awk, and gdb seems to be completely missing in 
>> 6.2.  Any suggestions on how to debug this?  Would a gdb from ports work?
>>
>> thanks for any help,
>> dave c
>>     
>
> Hi David,
>
> I'm going to investigate.
> Can you tell if it just happens randomly, or if it always happens with some 
> ports, but not others ?
> If it always happens with the same ports, can you name one that is faster to
> build than ruby ? ;)
>
> Thanks a lot for reporting !
>
> Olivier
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