On Sep 21, 2007, at 5:22 PM, William Davis wrote:
On Sep 21, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Sep 18, 2007, at 16:04, Michael D. Johas Teener wrote:
The last few installs that I have attempted have hung during the activate phase ... I have terminated the processes and tried an explicit activate command, but that hangs, too. Now I have a number of intalled-but- inactive ports hanging around. For instance:
mikes-brcm-mbp:~ mikejt$ port installed The following ports are currently installed: aquaterm @1.0.1_0+darwin_8 expat @2.0.0_1 expat @2.0.1_0 (active) fontconfig @2.4.2_0+macosx freetype @2.3.5_0 gawk @3.1.5_2 (active) gettext @0.14.6_0 gettext @0.16.1_0 (active) libiconv @1.10_1+darwin_8 libiconv @1.11_4+darwin_8 (active) libpcap @0.9.5_1 (active) pkgconfig @0.22_0+universal (active) XFree86 @4.7.0_0+macosx (active) zlib @1.2.3_1 (active) mikes-brcm-mbp:~ mikejt$ sudo port activate freetype ---> Activating freetype
Then nothing ... just dead air .. same thing if I try to activate aquaterm ...
Please try with debug and verbose output.
sudo port -dv activate freetype
Either it will show that something is progressing, though slowly, in which case let it go, or it will hang at one spot, and if so, show us the last few lines.
had similar problems. I did a little more testing and found this: if for some reason a port is installed but cant be activated (call it foo), then after that every time you try to update all outdated , the message "Activating foo" will appear up to five times along with any other update messages. On some occasions, an infinite loop will occur with tclsh8.4 opening sh which opens tclsh8.4 which open another sh which opens another ...... well you see what I mean.
er.........never-mind me. I had removed MacPorts previously but failed to remove the launch daemon items (see the FAQ re Uninstalling) believe that was the cause. Problem has not recurred since I did a righteous Uninstall and reinstalled.