#18553: 'sudo port install gimp' hangs indefinitely ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: kevin.h.kahl@… | Owner: devans@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.7.0 Keywords: | Port: gimp ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Comment(by kevin.h.kahl@…): Thank you, yes, I did consider that, and I confess that I have no way of being certain. I do know that the -v switch produces no output of any kind while the -d switch produces so much (of what looks to be looping, repetitive output) as to be effectively unusable as a way to measure progress. Lacking any usable visual indication of progress, I am only able to use other tools and empirical observation: * Tclsh was allowed to consume '''68 minutes''' (!) worth of CPU time before I finally gave up. That's a lot of processing resource consumption on a multi-core 2+GHz CPU. I don't expect an installation task to be particularly compute-intensive. * I don't have any indication of heavy disk or network activity. * I don't have any idea of what the expected run time is, or even what the command is trying to do. The last ticket mentioned "just having to wait a few minutes". This gives me an impression of minutes, not hours. Based on the above, for all intents and purposes, this looks like a hang. That's my best guess. Perhaps if someone could tell me what the expected typical run time for a gimp installation might be, or if the tool could output some progress indications, I might have a better sense of whether this really is hung... -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18553#comment:2> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS