broken xterm and portupgrade stuck in a loop

[h]

evenutally, portupgrade finished all checks and is now actually upgrading 
ports.

i hope after it's done, xterm, xchat and other apps are able to run again.


On Saturday 16 October 2004 22:21, h wrote:
> 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-4.4.0                XFree86-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-4.3.0                Xft-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 ?