Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 22:20:44 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Richard Collyer <richard@firebadger.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crash When "make index" - Repair Needed? Message-ID: <435C530C.8010300@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <435BCCA5.6060502@firebadger.net> References: <435BCCA5.6060502@firebadger.net>
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Richard Collyer wrote: > Hello, > > My box (5.4 Stable) has taken to crashing when I do a make > index (in /usr/ports) after a cvsup ports upgrade. I think the > problem may be down to overheating as it only does this when > the server is put under considerable stress (I take it that > make index is stressful on the PC) and has done it before > when I was doing some data manipulation which stressed > it for an hour or so. After that I added some cooling which > solved the problem...until now. > > > My question is do I need to repair the index if the box crashes > while making it? If so how do I do it. I read on google that 5.x > doesnt need to make index in the same way as 4.x did so I am > safe by not running the command? > > > Cheers > Richard Sounds like a case for "make fetchindex", in which your box will download INDEX-5 from a freebsd.org server instead of building it from scratch. HTH, Kevin Kinsey
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