Re: 3 day nightmare

[PJ <af.gourmet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Things get better - hah!

I finally figured out that the reason for all the "problems" is that the 
deinstallation of a port does not clean out the port directories and 
there are a lot of residual files that screw up any installations or 
upgrades-updates. 
It looks like the only way to get things straight is to unistall all the 
related programs and delete (remove) the related ports from the ports 
directory; then, run cvsup-without-gui : 
# cvsup -g -L 2 ports-supfile from the /root directory. 
You have to verify the configuration of each port with make showconfig; 
then to change the configuration (if so desired) make config and then 
make install clean. 
Great! Sure works on most of the programs except when so;me idiot has 
screwed up the works, like on php5-5.2.8. On installing phpmyadmin there 
is a break in a "required" file in php5-spl (don't know what that is). 
So, I'm back to square 1, or is it 0... 
Still more wonders - some yoyo posted a solution (my donkey!) 
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=883 
where in he says to do just what I had already done and found does not 
work... delete the php5-spl port and then run cvsup (as above)... 
but.... the clown merely says "cvsup" .... oh yeah? what the devil does 
he mean, cvsup - which version and what directives? And then he says to 
run the phpmyadmin make install clean again... Now, does one have to be 
naive to think that the phpmyadmin install will now miraculously work? 
And that's not all... I wanted to post to the site to find out what the 
guy really meant with the cvsup and what miracles would make the 
installation work? Yeah, I wanted to... but miracle of miracles.... the 
site is having some server issues and it is impossible to register 
(especially with their ridiculous image verification setup)... and to 
top it all off, their contact for reporting a problem with registration 
or anything uses the same verification and again, there is server 
problem... result- you can't register to post and you can't report a 
problem... BRAVO FreeBSD. 
I'm beginning to wonder why there are so many Linux users... all I can 
say at this time is - horsemanure !!!


PJ wrote:
> This is rather complicated, so please bear with me.
> Running FreeBSD 7.0
> Background: Originally installed MySql 6.08alpha (compiled from ports),
> php5.27,phpMyAdmin3.10, php-mysql-5.27,php-gd-5.27 and eventually got
> things working ok.
> Problem: My ISP host is using MySql 5.0.37 and  phpMyAdmin 2.10.1 ; so,
> I figure that I had better use  something "compatible" in developing  a
> site.
> Currently on FBSD Mysql50 is 5.0.67_1 and phpMyAdmin 3.1.0  -  assume
> that installing these should make the MySql db work on the site as well
> as on my local development serve...
> I have gone through innumerable contortions for 3 days trying to install
> the needed versions but the only thing that works (more or less) is 
> Webmin.
> I have checked and rechecked, installed and reinstalled Mysql, Php5,
> phpMyAdmin and php5-mysql, php-gd2, etc. and all I get is nada.
> info.php does not show mysql but it does show the pgsql and gd2 
> extensions.
> the mysql.so module is in the extensions.ini file and the file location
> is set in php.ini.
> After installing phpMyAdmin there is no phpadmin database in MySql and I
> cannot connect to phpadmin - error - Cannot access mysql module, check
> php configuration.
> I tried to clean out theFBSD server files of almost all files and
> directories related to MySql, php5, phpmyadmin and then reinstalled
> MySql50, php5, phpmyadmin as well as php5-mysql, php5-gd and php5-pgsql.
> Both php5-mysql and php5-pgsql installed the required modules in the
> extensions.ini directory - but the mysql module is not recognized by
> info.php.
> What am I missing here?  I can seek out and attach error files - but I
> don't know where or what would give any indications of what is wrong.
> mysqld seems to be runnin -
> ps -waux  returns:
> root   1482  0.0  0.1  3456  1384  ??  I     8:55AM   0:00.00 sh -c
> ((/usr/local/bin/safe_mysqld || /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe) &)
>
> root   1483  0.0  0.1  3456  1492  ??  I     8:55AM   0:00.01 /bin/sh
> /usr/local/bin/mysqld_safe
>
> mysql  1497  0.0  1.1 65860 22400  ??  I     8:55AM   0:03.28
> /usr/local/libexec/mysqld --basedir=/usr/local --datadir=/var/db/mysq
>
> root  66079  0.0  0.1  3308  1136  v0  S+   11:26AM   0:00.00 grep mysql
>
> Is the datadir=/var/db/mysq correct or is it truncated?
>
> HELP, please...