MacPorts dmg installer hangs up, does not finish ?
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine. I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes. I opened the /opt folder and there were a few items in it. "port" was actually there, so I tried using the terminal instead and tried "sudo port -v selfupdate" left it alone for a while but nothing happened, so I finally hit CTRL-C and deleted the /op directory. Any ideas ? Bill Hernandez ms@mac-specialist.com
Bill Hernandez wrote:
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine.
I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes.
The Installer.app provides a log (Window -> Installer Log), what does it say there? Rainer
On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
Bill Hernandez wrote:
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine. I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes.
The Installer.app provides a log (Window -> Installer Log), what does it say there?
Rainer
This is where it hangs... 1 Mar 10 13:21:09 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer scripts detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode. 2 Mar 10 13:21:15 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer scripts detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode. 3 Mar 10 13:23:00 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer scripts detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode. 4 Mar 10 13:23:00 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer scripts detected in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Switching to compatibility mode. 5 Mar 10 13:23:00 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer script preflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode. 6 Mar 10 13:23:00 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer script postflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode. 7 Mar 10 13:23:01 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer script preflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode. 8 Mar 10 13:23:02 eagle Installer[287]: Localized installer script postflight found in the MacPorts-1.6.0 package. Using compatibility mode. Bill Hernandez ms@mac-specialist.com
On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
Bill Hernandez wrote:
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine. I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes.
The Installer.app provides a log (Window -> Installer Log), what does it say there?
Rainer
I downloaded the MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg again, and this time it installed after several minutes. After the installer finished I tried : $ sudo port -v selfupdate Password: Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ ports/ but here the terminal hangs up. (it hasn't done anything for about 10 minutes) Bill Hernandez ms@mac-specialist.com
On Mar 10, 2008, at 13:56, Bill Hernandez wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
Bill Hernandez wrote:
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine. I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes.
The Installer.app provides a log (Window -> Installer Log), what does it say there?
I downloaded the MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg again, and this time it installed after several minutes.
After the installer finished I tried :
$ sudo port -v selfupdate Password: Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/ release/ ports/
but here the terminal hangs up. (it hasn't done anything for about 10 minutes)
Does your network allow traffic on the rsync port?
On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 13:56, Bill Hernandez wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
Bill Hernandez wrote:
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine. I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes.
You know you wrote an iMacG5 pentium machine, right? Which doesn't exist. I'm sure you meant PPC, instead of pentium. By the way, wait for about 5 minutes and it will be done by the time you get back from making coffee. You might have to create a file after you are done. I had to. Let me/ us know after it installs if you can do the "sudo port selfupdate". Cheers, - Alex
The rsync repo gets sluggish around 4-5am PDT every day due to server backups and maintenance. I'm actually going to try spreading out some of the load throughout the day to help... But right now, you can expect the selfupdate and syncs to take up to 10m. Normally on average they take 1-3m for me during the day. I was thinking that the progress bar on the installer could be changed or some rsync verbose output added to make it not seem like a hang, but the performance is also an issue, and I am working on it. Thanks -Bill On Mar 12, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 13:56, Bill Hernandez wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
Bill Hernandez wrote:
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine. I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes.
The Installer.app provides a log (Window -> Installer Log), what does it say there?
I downloaded the MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg again, and this time it installed after several minutes.
After the installer finished I tried :
$ sudo port -v selfupdate Password: Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/ release/ ports/
but here the terminal hangs up. (it hasn't done anything for about 10 minutes)
Does your network allow traffic on the rsync port?
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On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:55 PM, William Siegrist wrote:
The rsync repo gets sluggish around 4-5am PDT every day due to server backups and maintenance. I'm actually going to try spreading out some of the load throughout the day to help... But right now, you can expect the selfupdate and syncs to take up to 10m. Normally on average they take 1-3m for me during the day.
I was thinking that the progress bar on the installer could be changed or some rsync verbose output added to make it not seem like a hang, but the performance is also an issue, and I am working on it.
Thanks -Bill
It's really funny how we get used to the way things work. The first modem I ever owned was used on an Apple IIe and had a speed of 300 baud, and never managed transfer a small (few kb) file without losing the connection. Transfers were usually a multi-hour ordeal with very poor results. Today I am fortunate to live in an area that has Fiber. I tried to get Residential FIOS but there was no way to get a fixed public IP, so I subscribed to Verizon Business FIOS 15/2 MBit/sec service and that has worked out very well. I've gotten used to receiving transfers from Apple that are sometimes as large as 90 MBytes, in what seems like a matter of seconds. I may be wrong but it just seems really fast. We as a whole seem to have lost all sense of perspective, such that if a file takes a few minutes to download we begin think the transfer has hung up. This is probably what happened, I should have gone to lunch and checked when I came back. There was no way from the Terminal to tell whether anything was happening. Something that may help others is perhaps a message "This may take a few minutes, come back in a while..." I see from your response, that I should have allowed at least 10 minutes. I began running into a number of other problems that forced me to force quit applications that continuously became non-responsive. I may be wrong, but I suspect that upgrading Leopard directly over Tiger may be the cause of some of the problems. Yesterday I completely re-formatted my primary drive, did a clean install of Leopard, and spent several hours downloading and installing the very latest versions of each application and 3rd party utility I own. After I read Ryan's comments on Darwin 8 vs. Darwin 9, I thought the smartest thing would be to re-format and install everything from scratch, not just MacPorts. Today I will try to do a clean install of MacPorts, and see how that goes. Thanks to all those who replied for the help... Bill Hernandez ms@mac-specialist.com
On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 13:56, Bill Hernandez wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
Bill Hernandez wrote:
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine. I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes.
The Installer.app provides a log (Window -> Installer Log), what does it say there?
I downloaded the MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg again, and this time it installed after several minutes.
After the installer finished I tried :
$ sudo port -v selfupdate Password: Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/ release/ ports/
but here the terminal hangs up. (it hasn't done anything for about 10 minutes)
Does your network allow traffic on the rsync port?
I've never had a problem with rsync before. I haven't changed anything on the firewall for a while. I began running into a number of other problems that forced me to force quit applications like Xcode, and others, that continuously became non-responsive. I may be wrong, but I suspect that upgrading Leopard directly over Tiger may be the cause of some of these problems. Yesterday I completely re-formatted my primary drive, did a clean install of Leopard, and spent several hours downloading and installing the very latest versions of each application and 3rd party utility I own. After I read your comments on Darwin 8 vs. Darwin 9, I thought the smartest thing would be to re-format the drive and install everything from scratch, not just MacPorts. Today I will try to do a clean install of MacPorts, and see how that goes. Bill Hernandez ms@mac-specialist.com
On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:51 PM, Alex Zavatone wrote:
On Mar 12, 2008, at 4:45 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 13:56, Bill Hernandez wrote:
On Mar 10, 2008, at 1:17 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
Bill Hernandez wrote:
I am running OS X 10.5.2 on an iMacG5 pentium machine. I just downloaded MacPorts-1.6.0.pkg and tried to install it several times, but it always hangs up with the progress indicator about 3/4 of the way through, and never finishes.
You know you wrote an iMacG5 pentium machine, right? Which doesn't exist. I'm sure you meant PPC, instead of pentium.
By the way, wait for about 5 minutes and it will be done by the time you get back from making coffee.
You might have to create a file after you are done. I had to. Let me/us know after it installs if you can do the "sudo port selfupdate".
Cheers, - Alex
I meant to say Intel but wrote pentium Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac7,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 4 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B00 SMC Version: 1.21f4 Bill Hernandez ms@mac-specialist.com
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