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[Marc Greene <marcg AT phreaker.net>]

Hey SM gurus and users... it's been quite a while since I've posted here,
some of you may remember me... Anyway, I updated my box for the first
time in maybe 8 months and I'm running into a few issues. A couple of
spells are hanging right at the end of the cast such as xfree86. The
compile and install part finishes after 2-3 hours or so, then it takes
forever to make the cache file:

--
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xc.bld/doc/man/GLU'
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xc.bld/doc/man'
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xc.bld/doc'
perl  ./config/util/mkhtmlindex.pl /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/html
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xc.bld'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/xc.bld'
Installing xdm to runlevel 5...
  script xdm installed and enabled.  Disable with 'telinit disable xdm'.
Installing xdm.sh to runlevel 5...
  script xdm.sh installed and disabled.  Enable with 'telinit enable
xdm.sh'.
Creating /var/log/sorcery/compile/xfree86-4.3.0.1.bz2
Creating install log /var/log/sorcery/install/xfree86-4.3.0.1
--

This is the point where it's been sitting for about 10 hours now, HDD
light flashing away. I can see the tar file being created in /tmp, it's
about 111 megs now and still slowly growing:

root@Sorcerer:~# ls /tmp/xfree86-4.3.0.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     116643840 Feb  2 12:52
/tmp/xfree86-4.3.0.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar

root@Sorcerer:~# ls /tmp/xfree86-4.3.0.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root     116736000 Feb  2 13:56
/tmp/xfree86-4.3.0.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar

So I'm wondering if the cast is ever going to finish and bzip that file
(I have my doubts), and why it's taking so long.

'cast gcc' gave me similar behavior as well. All other spells seem to
cast flawlessly (so far, still haven't tried the kernel yet).

Any ideas? As the install did complete, I can run startx and all, but the
problem is when I try to, for instance 'cast imlib2', it thinks it still
has to compile xfree86. 'gaze installed xfree86' still says:

xfree86:
not installed

Also, I had to copy the xdm script in .../x11-libs/xfree86/init.d to
xdm.sh to keep the cast from complaining that it couldn't find the
xdm.sh file and no RUNLEVEL variable being set (sorry, I forgot to copy
the exact error and I prolly should have mv'd it instead of cp'ing, oh
well). A bug maybe?

I'm using test grimoire and devel sorcery. Thanks for any help!

Marc