--As of January 15, 2012 12:25:47 PM -0500, Jerry is alleged to have said:
Well, you might try and deinstall and then reinstall "portmanager".
Perhaps something got corrupted, although I don't know why that might
have happened.
No joy. Worth a try though. ;)
My suspicion is that it's a permissions issue someplace, somehow: I was
trying portmaster in it's 'run as wheel, sudo to root when needed' mode,
and it kept throwing permissions errors at me which I fixed for a while.
(Before reverting to just running it as root.)
Of course, I'm running *portmanager* as root, so... (Both under sudo, and
from root's cron.)
I have "BATCH=yes" set in the "/etc/make.conf" file to avoid receiving
those annoying "config screens." Of course that does require you to
insure that your ports are configured the way you want them prior to
updating them. I don't find it a problem; however, others might.
Interesting. I'll keep that in mind. Something to take a look at once
I've gotten this solved. ;)
By the way, how do you update your ports tree? Perhaps something got
corrupted there. I use portsnap myself, so you could use it to just
create a new tree thereby over writing the old one. Just a thought.
I have csup set to run once a week in cron. I don't think that corrupted
anything: `portmanager -s -y` ran fine before I ran portmaster, and I
didn't update the tree in between. But blowing away the tree and
re-creating it is starting to sound like something worth a try.
Daniel T. Staal
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