From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 21 13:25:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE0016A4E0 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:25:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zope@2012.vi) Received: from efit.xs4all.nl (efit.xs4all.nl [82.92.236.145]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F296B43D8A for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:25:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zope@2012.vi) Received: from [10.0.0.172] (198puntacana97.codetel.net.do [200.88.97.198]) by efit.xs4all.nl (Weasel v1.73) for ; 21 Aug 2006 15:21:52 Message-ID: <44E9B456.8030705@2012.vi> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:25:42 -0400 From: beno User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Why This Infinite Loop?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 13:25:54 -0000 Hi; I successfully rebuilt FreeBSD from 5.3 to 6.1. However, when I ran portmanager -u my server went into an infinite loop! It kept reinstalling Bind and I think Perl. I don't think it installed anything more than that. I had run this command: make delete-old-libs but also had added the lib diff file between 5 and 6 (forget its name) so I had most of my lib files that I needed, and everything seems to be running okay. Then again, maybe I've missed something. Why did this command create an infinite loop (that lasted 6 hours before I killed it)? Is there a better program/command I should use? How do I d/l that program? TIA, beno