From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 24 05:39:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 350AF106564A for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ejcerejo@optonline.net) Received: from mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net [167.206.4.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7078FC12 for ; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ejcerejo@optonline.net) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (ool-457f63f5.dyn.optonline.net [69.127.99.245]) by mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-8.04 (built Feb 28 2007)) with ESMTP id <0KDY003VGNPNWJ51@mta4.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:39:24 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:39:23 -0500 From: "E. J. Cerejo" In-reply-to: <497A69B5.7060401@onetel.com> To: Chris Whitehouse Message-id: <497AA98B.2060202@optonline.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20090122200026.08be1e7a.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <4979F883.6000304@onetel.com> <20090123180930.e7bf8d11.ejcerejo@optonline.net> <497A668D.4050501@onetel.com> <497A69B5.7060401@onetel.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Portmanager gives me an error message 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: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:39:25 -0000 Chris Whitehouse wrote: > Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> Eduardo Cerejo wrote: >>> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:03 +0000 >>> Chris Whitehouse wrote: >>> >>>> Eduardo Cerejo wrote: >>>>> I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade >>>>> keeps failing all the time. No matter what port I try to upgrade I >>>>> get this error: >>>>> >>>>> sudo portmanager x11/xterm -l -u >>>> According to the man page you don't need the -u when doing a single >>>> port, see EXAMPLES. >>>> >>>> Chris >>>> >>>>> Password: >>>>> MGrStrlen error: NULL marker not found in string >>>>> Assertion failed: (0), function MGrStrlen, file MGrStrlen.c, line 54. >>>>> Abort >>>>> >>>>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 release. >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >>>> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> I want it to do the same thing that 'portupgrade -R whateverport' does >> >> What happens if you run as root >> >> # portmanager x11/xterm -l >> >> ? >> What version of portmanager are you using? >> >> # portmanager -v > > In fact (replying to my own message :p) > > chrisw@muji% portmanager -v > portmanager must be run as root > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > 0.4.1_9, it happens the same thing running it under root. I'll try to reinstalling it tomorrow and see what happens.