Panics?

[Jyrki Wahlstedt]

Hi,
this must be an odd question to make, but I've recently had  
difficulties with my system and I'd like to confirm that my system  
(i.e. computer, currently at 10.4.8 and Xcode 2.4) is a more probable  
culprit then the ports system. The symptom is that installing ports  
or getting info about them fails. I've even had panics like the  
following:
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Thu Oct 12 12:17:34 2006
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x00215C84): bad dir
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
       Backtrace:
          0x00095138 0x00095650 0x00026898 0x00215C84 0x000FB124  
0x000E1EE8 0x000E1A7C 0x000EE74C
          0x000EEB04 0x000EEBA4 0x002AAE28 0x000AB930 0xFF4F0000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
    Exception state (sv=0x20F27C80)
       PC=0x90021A0C; MSR=0x0000F030; DAR=0x00306000;  
DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x9003CB68; R1=0xBFFF9F70; XCP=0x00000030 (0xC00  
- System call)

Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0: Fri Sep  8 17:18:57 PDT 2006;  
root:xnu-792.12.6.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC

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This one was obtained by writing "ll $(port contents mysql5)" in the  
Terminal (should produce some garbage due to "port x contains", but  
then produce a long list of information on the files, this is related  
to the symptom that symbolic links often are empty in my installs).  
The previous panic port was ruby, but it did not install at all. I  
don't really see a chance myself for the port command to cause a  
panic in such a predictable way (as tcl is using normal userland  
system services!?). It is more probably so(?) that there are some bad  
blocks or something that these installs have hit.

If I am the only one who has experienced things like this, I'll start  
to complain in one direction…
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