Installer hangs... it's been a bad day.

[Glen Henshaw]

> Sounds like you had an old (very old) MacPorts installation that needed
> to be updated, so it was dutifully doing that.

No, not true - I update at least every few weeks. This morning it did
install a newer version of MacPorts, but I was only one version behind.
It *is* true that I've been using MacPorts for a long, long time,
basically since it started, but I completely reinstalled from scratch
when I updated to Snow Leopard. And my last selfupdate was less than a
month ago.

> If `du -sh /opt/local` says you've got more than a couple megabytes
> installed, things aren't actually uninstalled.

$ du -sh /opt/local
1.6M    /opt/local

Note that this is *after* most of the installer script has finished.
It's still spinning it's wheels trying to run the postflight script.
Since 1.6M is the expected size of a clean macPorts install, I'm pretty
sure there aren't any ports in there yet.

Glen

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012, at 09:41 PM, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
> > the installer hung at
> > 
> > ./postflight: Updating port image format…
> 
> Sounds like you had an old (very old) MacPorts installation that needed
> to be updated, so it was dutifully doing that. If you had many packages
> installed, converting from the old flat file format may indeed take
> hours.
> 
> > So eventually I manually uninstalled MacPorts altogether, following the documented instructions. And now, when I try to run the installer -
> > after a fresh reboot - it still hangs in exactly the same spot. Just sits there. For as long as I'm willing to stare at it, apparently. On my last attempt, I let it run for nearly thirty minutes. Nothing.
> 
> If `du -sh /opt/local` says you've got more than a couple megabytes
> installed, things aren't actually uninstalled. Since it seems the
> installation was so old you may have forgotten about it, you might as
> well just blow the whole thing away and deal with any non-/opt/local
> collisions as they arise (by issuing `port -f activate X` at the time).
> 
> I'd see if there are any other suggestions before blowing the whole thing
> away, but my guess is you have a lot of very old packages installed
> still.
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