On 18/02/2011 12:29, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
[Aba-Sah Dadzie<[email protected]> (2011-02-18 12:14:01 UTC)]
I ran selfupdate almost a week ago, and my computer is pretty much
broken now - for any program remotely related to MacPorts.
Is it *only* macports?
Everything was fine till I ran the selfupdate. And the only things that
broke - immediately AFTER the update - I noticed because I was working
on a paper so was using xdvi, emacs and gimp, were the programs I either
installed through MacPorts and/or MacPorts works with. I did the
selfupdate because I wanted to upgrade Graphviz, which I also installed
via MacPorts.
Other programs that have nothing to do with MacPorts - TextEdit, MS
Office, etc., I use regularly are fine. Which makes me doubt it's a
hardware issue.
Your litany of woes would make me suspect either a hardware problem or
a corrupted system file outside of macports. But if you never have any
problems with non-macports software then that sounds a mite unlikely.
Still, if this happened to me, I would run a hardware test. Including
a thorough disk test. A bad sector in the midst of a much used library
would surely be an endless source of grief!
When you said you reinstalled macports from scratch, did you really
mean that? I.e., did you run sudo rm -fr /opt/local and then install
macports and then all your ports?
no, I downloaded the disk image and tried the install from that. Then I
followed the instructions for uninstall from the terminal from the
MacPorts FAQ/Guide.
If so, and if the hardware test shows no problems, I'd suspect a
corrupt system file somewhere. In which case, maybe downloading the
latest combo updater from apple.com and installing it just might fix
the problem. Or failing that, a complete reinstall of your entire OS.
It's time consuming and painful, but sometimes such drastic measures
can't be avoided. I do hope you have good backups! Good luck.
- Harald
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