Mac crashed while running port upgrade outdated

Sam Kuper sam.kuper at uclmail.net
Fri Mar 15 02:30:00 PDT 2013


On 15/03/2013, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:
> On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 14, 2013, at 20:38, Sam Kuper wrote:
>>
>>> I had a Macbook running OS X 10.6.8 crash just now due to a "TLB
>>> invalidation IPI timeout".
>>
>> What do you mean "crash"? Do you mean a kernel panic that forced you to
>> restart the computer? Or just that a program crashed?
>
> This was almost certainly a kernel panic.

Thanks for stepping in for me; and yes, it was a kernel panic.
Apologies for not having specified that in my first post.

On 15/03/2013, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>Interrupting MacPorts during some phases can lead to problems with some ports.
> For example, if you interrupt a port activation, then try to activate it again, you
> might get complaints that some of the files being activated already exist.

>Probably I'd "sudo port clean outdated" before trying to upgrade outdated again.

Many thanks for the heads up.

All best,

Sam


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