#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

#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 devans@…): Just to give you an idea of the magnitude of the task, attached (compressed) is gimp's current dependency tree. From this you can see there are 179865 entries in gimp's dependency tree representing 246 unique ports. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18553#comment:4> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#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 devans@…): Would also help significantly if this process could be taught to skip tracing dependencies for port subtrees that have already been visited. For instance each of the plugins depends on gimp2 so it looks like the whole gimp2 subtree is searched for each one of them when doing it the once first time is really sufficient. But this is off topic of the ticket. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18553#comment:6> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS

#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@…): Success. Please close / resolve this ticket. The order of installation recommended above was successful. Thank you, devans, for the suggested order of installation. Usable progress was reported throughout each stage and at no time did the system appear to be hung. I hope that this commentary helps others in the future. Each stage did indeed take time, and the overall process consumed much of a day. However, after completing the first three installation steps, the command "sudo port install gimp" almost immediately began reporting progress and was ultimately successful. I wholeheartedly support the other comments in this discussion that suggest ways to make to dependency traversal more efficient. I have installed Gimp under several other environments (both binary: Debian Linux, Fedora/Red Hat Linux, and build-from-source: Gentoo/emerge/portage) and never before experienced anything like what I reported in the initial ticket description. Thank you for hosting this "non-bug" discussion and for providing meaningful and useful suggestions and support. Please keep up the good work! -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/18553#comment:8> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS