Tragedy Guys,

it was going so well. I had my hopes up.

During build of clisp, it got up to dependency "pcre-6.6"
then the same thing happened again.

( remember fresh install and package source )

I ended up with a shell prompt and no messages.
But the process's still running in the background.
It stopped in the configure stage:

>>>
Registering info files for readline-5.1pl1nb1:

        /usr/pkg/info/history.info
        /usr/pkg/info/readline.info
        /usr/pkg/info/rluserman.info

===========================================================================
===> Registering installation for readline-5.1pl1nb1
===> Returning to build of clisp-2.38
===> Required package pcre>=6.2: NOT found
===> Verifying reinstall for ../../devel/pcre
=> Checksum SHA1 OK for pcre-6.6.tar.bz2.
=> Checksum RMD160 OK for pcre-6.6.tar.bz2.
===> Extracting for pcre-6.6
===> Required installed package libtool-base>=1.5.18nb5: libtool-base-1.5.22nb2 found
===> Patching for pcre-6.6
===> Applying pkgsrc patches for pcre-6.6
===> Overriding tools for pcre-6.6
===> Creating toolchain wrappers for pcre-6.6
===> Configuring for pcre-6.6
#

WHAT ???
it just stopped dead here. no message.

see what shell etc:

# echo $SHELL

# pwd
/usr/pkgsrc/devel/pcre/work/pcre-6.6
# ps -aux
USER   PID %CPU %MEM  VSZ   RSS TT STAT STARTED    TIME COMMAND
root     0  0.0 23.6    0 23068 ?? DKs  10:21PM 0:00.10 [swapper]
root     1  0.0  0.8   60   740 ?? Is   10:21PM 0:00.73 init
root     2  0.0 23.6    0 23068 ?? DK   10:21PM 0:00.00 [scsibus0]
root     3  0.0 23.6    0 23068 ?? DK   10:21PM 0:00.00 [lfs_writer]
root     4  0.0 23.6    0 23068 ?? DK   10:21PM 0:05.03 [pagedaemon]
root     5  0.4 23.6    0 23068 ?? DK   10:21PM 8:15.43 [ioflush]
root     6  0.0 23.6    0 23068 ?? DK   10:21PM 0:22.73 [aiodoned]
root   143  0.0  0.8  184   792 ?? Is   10:21PM 0:01.03 /usr/sbin/syslogd -s
root   280  0.0  2.0 1072  1940 ?? Ss   10:21PM 0:09.81 sendmail: accepting connection
root   328  0.0  0.8  228   732 ?? Is   10:21PM 0:00.86 /usr/sbin/cron
root   407  0.0  0.0   80   852 ?? IWs  10:25PM 0:00.07 /usr/sbin/inetd -l
root  2431  0.0  0.0  196   900 ?? IW    8:18AM 0:01.31 rlogind -L
root  2828  0.0  0.0  196   900 ?? IW    8:28AM 0:00.20 rlogind -L
root 19354  0.0  0.9  196   900 ?? S    10:13AM 0:01.88 rlogind -L
root   315  0.0  0.0  220   868 ?? IWs+ 10:21PM 0:00.78 -csh
pts   2569  0.0  0.0  200   828 p0 IWs   8:18AM 0:00.25 -csh
root  5361  0.0  0.0  224   880 p0 IW+   8:18AM 0:00.42 -csh
pts   4555  0.0  0.0  200   828 p1 IWs+  8:28AM 0:00.28 -csh
root   245  0.0  0.0 1216  1852 p2 IW   10:42AM 0:04.01 make
root  3510  0.0  1.9 1164  1808 p2 I    11:21AM 0:03.35 /usr/bin/make DEPENDS_TARGET r
root  6178  0.0  0.0  216   888 p2 IW   10:15AM 0:00.31 -csh
root  7660  0.0  0.0  156   716 p2 IW   10:51AM 0:00.04 /bin/sh -c cd /usr/pkgsrc/lang
pts   8543  0.0  0.0  204   852 p2 IWs  10:13AM 0:00.26 -csh
root 10174  0.0  0.7  160   656 p2 I    11:21AM 0:00.04 /bin/sh -c DEPENDS_TARGET=rein
root 12048  0.0  2.1 1368  2004 p2 I    11:23AM 0:03.83 /usr/bin/make DEPENDS_TARGET r
root 12793  0.0  1.9 1224  1868 p2 I    10:51AM 0:04.11 /usr/bin/make _MAKE /usr/bin/m
root 14177  0.0  1.8 1160  1804 p2 I    11:21AM 0:03.28 /usr/bin/make HOST_OSTYPE NetB
root 18483  0.0  0.7  160   720 p2 I    11:23AM 0:00.04 /bin/sh -c cd /usr/pkgsrc/deve
root 20516  0.0  0.6   88   624 p2 R+   11:24AM 0:00.04 ps -aux
root 25998  0.0  0.8  160   752 p2 S    11:23AM 0:00.11 (sh)
root 27496  0.0  0.8  168   744 p2 I    11:21AM 0:00.06 /bin/sh -c pkg=pcre\\>=6.2;\t\
root 27498  0.0  0.7  164   724 p2 I    11:23AM 0:00.08 (sh)
#
>>>




I think it's had it guys.
Perhaps it is a hardware fault.

Think I'll get the sparcstation 2 out of the cupboard.
Slower but i think it will work.

Suggestions welcome.

chs,
Paul.












"Johan A. van Zanten" wrote:

> "Paul (NCC/CS)." <pts@bom.gov.au> wrote:
>
> > - other big builds like xscreensaver will die and just leave
> > a shell prompt (as in "sh") sitting there in the middle of a
> > build.  (I have tcsh as default shell) .
>
> OK, i've built and installed xscreensaver on my SPARC-5 running NetBSD
> 2.0.2_STABLE. I did hit some snags, but it was due to older versions of
> xscreensaver dependencies already being installed.
>
>  So as far as i cna tell, xscreensaver builds OK.
>
>  -johan

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Australian Bureau Of Meteorology
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