Error code 254

[Per olof Ljungmark]

Mel Flynn wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:56:40 Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>> Mel Flynn wrote:
>>> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 12:20:00 Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>>> Mel Flynn wrote:
>>>>> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 10:53:21 Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>>>>> Mel Flynn wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 09:27:06 Mel Flynn wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 08:53:59 Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Mel Flynn wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On Tuesday 11 August 2009 02:48:49 Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> ===> Installing documentation in
>>>>>>>>>>> /usr/local/share/doc/pear/XML_Serializer. ===> Installing tests
>>>>>>>>>>> in /usr/local/share/pear/tests/XML_Serializer. ===> Installing
>>>>>>>>>>> examples in /usr/local/share/examples/pear/XML_Serializer. ***
>>>>>>>>>>> Error code 254
>> Hmmm, when I try
>> portupgrade -fO pear
>> the error pops up here too.
>>
>> Should I suspect the package database then?
>>
>> ===>  Installing for pear-1.8.1
>> ===>   pear-1.8.1 depends on file: /usr/local/include/php/main/php.h -
>> found ===>   pear-1.8.1 depends on file:
>> /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/pcre.so - found
>> ===>   pear-1.8.1 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/xml.so -
>> found
>> ===>   Generating temporary packing list
>> *** Error code 254
> 
> Is it really at that point? Could you try a make -dl install again? If it's 
> the package list generation for real, then I'm gonna suspect something on a 
> system level, like IO errors or read-only mounts.
> 
> If it is the same thing with pear install command, then perhaps you should 
> pkg_delete -r pear-1.8.1 (careful, will uninstall anything depending on pear) 
> and start over to see if the error persists. The pear command sure can use 
> some more verbosity then.

Yes, reinstalling pear made the problem go away. Unfortunately this will
never tell us what was actually wrong but at least it works now.

Thanks a lot for your input.

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per