Random tip: monitoring progress in fsck

jamesoff — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:11:13 +0000

fsck in Linux has had some kind of progress bar for a while now (at least, last time I used SuSE it did). FreeBSD’s fsck is Too Advanced for such things, and if you’re checking a big disk (like /usr) you can find yourself just sitting there with no idea of what progress it’s making.

Sit no more! Just hit Ctrl-t and fsck will reveal its secrets. (This sends the currently running process a SIGINFO.)

Upgrading OpenEXR

jamesoff — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:38:11 +0000

While upgrading ports on Roz’s desktop, I ran foul of this:

...
generalInterfaceTiledExamples.o(.text+0x36f): In function `writeTiled1(char const*, Imf::Array2D&, int, int, int, int)':
: undefined reference to `Imf::Channel::Channel(Imf::PixelType, int, int, bool)'
generalInterfaceTiledExamples.o(.text+0x3b3): more undefined references to `Imf::Channel::Channel(Imf::PixelType, int, int, bool)' follow
gmake[1]: *** [imfexamples] Error 1
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/work/usr/ports/graphics/OpenEXR/work/openexr-1.6.0/IlmImfExamples'
gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
*** Error code 2

Remembering that in UPDATING there was something about this, I had another look:

20071008:
  AFFECTS: users of graphics/OpenEXR and graphics/ilmbase
  AUTHOR: nork@FreeBSD.org
...
  # pkg_delete -f OpenEXR
  # pkg_delete -f ilmbase       (if you already installed before CONFLICT)
  # cd /usr/ports/graphics/OpenEXR
  # make install
  # pkgdb -F

Nope, that didn’t help. pkg_delete told me ilmbase wasn’t installed. A quick Google turned up a PR about this, but it was closed with “look at UPDATING.” so that didn’t help any more.

I fixed it by rebuilding graphics/ilmbase anyway. Once that was rebuild and reinstalled, OpenEXR built fine. No idea why pkg_delete didn’t think it was installed.

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Random tip: monitoring progress in fsck

Upgrading OpenEXR