Re: [Fink-users] extremely slow 'Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64' step on 10.13 with HFS

   Actually. after wiping my HFS+ volume and doing a clean install of
10.13.1, the issue seems to have disappeared under a fresh bootstrap
of fink 0.42.0.
                Jack

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 10:00 AM, Derek Homeier
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2017, at 3:08 pm, Jack Howarth <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Is anyone else on 10.13, booted from a hard drive formatted as a
>> HFS volume,observing the following behavior?  I am seeing an extremely
>> long delay during the final 'Scanning
>> dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64'step after building a package.
>> On 10.12, with a hard drive formatted as a HFS volume, this delay is
>> only a few seconds but under 10.13, I am seeing a 5-10 minute delay
>> during that step in fink.
>
> I am booting (and having fink running from) a SSD that used to be case-sensitive HFS+,
> and have seen this at least sporadically as well since updating to 10.13.
> Most of the time I didn’t have the patience to wait that long, and after
> checking for any perl processes that might have been stuck, killed the
> fink process. The command running at the time is something like
>
> sh -c gzip -c > dists\/stable\/main\/binary\-darwin\-x86_64\/Packages\.gz\.6OIbJ
>
> but I could not find out what process might be piping into the gzip here.
>
> I still find that other installs or running ‘fink scanpackages’ afterwards finish without delay,
> but even when waiting the 10 minutes, none of the scans ever created a Packages.gz file -
> there are only empty Packages.gz.blaBl files.
>
> I also just noticed on investigating a different issue that said filesystem is no longer HFS+,
> but has been converted to APFS on the upgrade to 10.13. Seems like this should not be the case for hard disks -
> https://malcont.net/2017/09/how-to-upgrade-macos-to-high-sierra-without-filesystem-change-hfs-to-apfs/
>
> but you may want to check your volume as well. No idea if this might be related to the sluggishness.
>
> Cheers,
>                                                 Derek
>

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