Portmanager stuck in a loop

[RW]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:55:57 -0400
Robert Noland <rnoland at 2hip.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 10:46 -0400, Josh Hanson wrote:
> > Ok, so I tried running "portmanager -u -p -l -y".
> > 
> > It built a lot of ports, then got stuck again on xorg-server over
> > and over. The log file looks the same as my first post.
> 
> Is the options screen being presented repeatedly?  If so, the options
> are corrupt and/or not being stored properly.  The dialog box should
> only be shown once and use the stored options after that.  You are
> running as a user with permission to update /var/db/ports?

If he wasn't then, presumably  portmanager wouldn't detect a
modification of options files. It sounds as if portmanager itself might
not be at the root of this and it's just reacting to a problem with the
ports, whereby one or more of them is spuriously bringing-up the
options screen.

I'd go to  /var/db/ports and remove any directories that match the
problem ports.