Problem installing KDE/Amarok

[Hal Vaughan]

On Jun 24, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Jun 24, 2009, at 13:05, Hal Vaughan wrote:
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>> I just installed MacPorts yesterday.  I'm trying to install Amarok  
>> and yesterday I typed "sudo port install amarok" yesterday.  It  
>> took qt hours to build.  Last night, when I got home about 9 pm,  
>> the terminal was not responding and clicking it gave me the  
>> spinning pinwheel.  I can't scroll or anything.  Ports has a  
>> message displayed: Installing kdebase4-runtime @4.2.4_0."  It's  
>> been at that stage since 9 pm last night (it's now about 2 pm the  
>> next day).  The terminal is locked up and I don't know if it's  
>> still building KDE and installing or if it's locked up.
>>
>> I've asked for help on #kde-mac, but with 20 people in that group,  
>> nobody seems active.
>>
>> I don't know if I should kill the terminal and therefore the ports  
>> process or if it just takes that long.  My guess is that KDE is big  
>> and it takes a lot of time and may take notable CPU resources, thus  
>> locking up the terminal for a while.  If that's so, I can deal with  
>> it, but for now, I can't run another instance of Terminal unless I  
>> reboot, and I don't know if restarting the port command will just  
>> put me in the same fix before.
>>
>> I'm on an iMac with OS X 10.5.7, a 2.4 Ghz Intel 2 core CPU with 4  
>> GB of 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRAM.  Not the latest, but no slouch either.   
>> Does it take over 17 hours to install KDE with such a system?
>>
>> Also I know that there are messages of commands I have to run on  
>> the terminal, but I only see a few, so I don't know if rebooting  
>> will mean I can't access any that have scrolled off the top yet.
>
> Hmm. First, welcome to MacPorts!
>
> qt4-mac does take hours to build, even on a nice system like that.  
> KDE probably also takes hours, but that time should mostly be taken  
> in the build phase. Once it reaches the installation phase, the port  
> isn't even in control; MacPorts base is, and all it's doing is  
> copying the contents of /opt/local/var/macports/build/(PORT)/work/ 
> destroot into /opt/local/var/macports/software/(PORT)/ 
> (VERSION)_(REVISION)_(VARIANTS). kdebase4-runtime could add  
> something to that with a pre-install or post-install phase, but that  
> port doesn't have one. In any case, I don't think the Terminal app  
> itself should ever become unresponsive, no matter how much work  
> MacPorts is doing. So I'm afraid something has gone wrong. If you  
> cannot interact with the Terminal, you'll have to force-quit it or  
> restart the computer as you said. Unfortunately, MacPorts does not  
> save the output of its build progress, so if there are messages  
> scrolled off the top that you cannot see or scroll up to now, they  
> are lost.

I figured they'd be lost if I had to kill the terminal.  Of course,  
I'm not 100% sure that this is the issue.  For all I know, the process  
could have been okay and it could be something else that crashed it.   
(Come to think of it, there was an ssh connection, but it's a program  
I'm always running in the b.g.)  I figure in worst case, since it's  
the first thing I'm installing, I could wipe out any KDE directory in  
Applications and just wipe all of /opt, reinstall MacPorts and restart.

Is there any place else KDE would store files that I'd have to clear  
out if I do that?

> After restarting Terminal or the computer, you can try again. You  
> can use the "-d" flag ("port -d install amarok") to get a lot more  
> information printed out. This will let you see what exactly a port  
> was doing if and when it gets hung up. On the other hand, the vast  
> quantity of output you will get means you will very likely miss any  
> "you must do this after installing the port"-type messages that some  
> ports print.

I was also going to see if I could find a list somewhere of all the  
messages from KDE.  It looks like each package is giving me the same  
message at the start and the end.

I'll most likely wipe out /opt and just start clean, since I don't  
have any other packages done with MacPorts yet.  I don't mind letting  
it rebuild qt overnight.

Thanks for the help on this!


Hal