Portupgrade out of swap - corrupt pkg info...

[Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: youshi10 at u.washington.edu [mailto:youshi10 at u.washington.edu]
>Sent: 06 February 2007 17:54
>To: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
>Subject: Re: Portupgrade out of swap - corrupt pkg info...
>
>
>On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD wrote:
>
>> I updated the ports on my laptop last night ran:
>>
>> portsnap fetch update
>>
>> followed by:
>>
>> portupgrade -arR
>>
>> This ran normally until it hit vim-gtk2. It built fine but 
>whilst it was registering the installation became unresponsive.
>>
>> Hard rebooted, and found that in /var/log/messages it 
>referred to being out of swap (I don't have the exact message to hand).
>>
>> pkg_info did not show vim as installed, so when portupgrade 
>finished a cd'd to /usr/ports/editors/vim and ran make install 
>clean. This installed without error.
>
>If you ran make install clean then it should have installed 
>the pkg info.
>
>> However, now when I run pkg_info it reports that the pkg 
>info for vim-gtk2 is corrupt.
>
>Hmmm...
>
>> Could anyone help with 2 questions:
>>
>> ~ How do I fix the package database entry for vim?
>
>pkg_install should do the trick, but you already cleaned out 
>the package build directory ><. make install for vim-gtk2 
>should do the trick now.


OK thanks for this. I've fiddled around and it seems to be working alright now. Thanks for this.


>
>> ~ What might have caused my machine to run out of swap? It 
>was running X and twm with 1 xterm open. For hardware it has 
>256MB RAM and a 470MB swap partition. I've not had this problem before.
>
>Ouch.. you should actually have more swap than that 
>(2*(Physical RAM amount) = 512MB swap would be a better idea 
>in the future).
>
>As for running out of swap, what are your make options for 
>ruby? Having the ruby doc (or whatever it was) option selected 
>ate up a lot of memory on machines a few months back; having 
>this option deselected and rebuilding ruby fixes the memory bloat.
>
>make config in the lang/ruby* ports directory will yield the 
>desired result here.


I take your point over the amount of swap - and I guess 256 RAM is getting a little light for a desktop/laptop these days.

I don't recall portupgrade touching ruby - but I'll check what options I have enabled for it.


>
>-Garrett


Thanks,


Peter Harrison


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