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 ... -- ----- Michael D. Johas Teener - mike@johasteener.com ----- http://xri.net/=Michael.Johas.Teener --- PGP ID 0x3179D202