Panics?

[Mark Duling]

If it helps, I have seen no problems like that on either intel or PPC with
10.4.8 and Xcode 2.4.  I also tried the command you listed and it works
fine.

Mark

Jyrki Wahlstedt <jwa at macports.org> on Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 7:49
AM -0800 wrote:
>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:
>=======
>*********
>
>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
>
>*********
>=======
>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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