Activate never completes

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 16:04, Michael D. Johas Teener wrote:

> The last few installs that I have attempted have hung during the  
> activate
> phase ... I have terminated the processes and tried an explicit  
> activate
> command, but that hangs, too. Now I have a number of intalled-but- 
> inactive
> ports hanging around. For instance:
>
> mikes-brcm-mbp:~ mikejt$ port installed
> The following ports are currently installed:
>   aquaterm @1.0.1_0+darwin_8
>   expat @2.0.0_1
>   expat @2.0.1_0 (active)
>   fontconfig @2.4.2_0+macosx
>   freetype @2.3.5_0
>   gawk @3.1.5_2 (active)
>   gettext @0.14.6_0
>   gettext @0.16.1_0 (active)
>   libiconv @1.10_1+darwin_8
>   libiconv @1.11_4+darwin_8 (active)
>   libpcap @0.9.5_1 (active)
>   pkgconfig @0.22_0+universal (active)
>   XFree86 @4.7.0_0+macosx (active)
>   zlib @1.2.3_1 (active)
> mikes-brcm-mbp:~ mikejt$ sudo port activate freetype
> --->  Activating freetype
>
> Then nothing ... just dead air .. same thing if I try to activate  
> aquaterm
> ...

Please try with debug and verbose output.

sudo port -dv activate freetype

Either it will show that something is progressing, though slowly, in  
which case let it go, or it will hang at one spot, and if so, show us  
the last few lines.