Unable to run brew --config, doctor, audit.

[ghost]

Hello,

Just got a weird problem regarding brew and some of it various options. These are brew --config, audit, doctor, etc.

The process just stalls, nothing happens, and the bash process just eats my CPU usage. And often locks my system down.

I would of course check my install via brew doctor, but since I can't run it. I'm out of luck :/

Any known instances of this before? Any help is really appreciated.

[ghost]

Even installing Mercurial isn't possible. Not sure how long a compile takes, but I left it be for around two/three hours, and still no completion.

[jacknagel]

(Keep in mind that I'm shooting in the dark here) At what point do things hang? Before or after the output?

[ghost]

It hangs before. And almost no verbose output when starting a Mercurial compile.

https://gist.github.com/1777333
Been like this for twenty minutes. (Ed1t: 30min)

My env: https://gist.github.com/1777392

[jacknagel]

Does it happen using Terminal.app as well?

[ghost]

Does indeed I'm sorry :/ I have no real clue what can cause this. Like there is something just hanging. Or don't get past a step or something.

Been like this for a few days. Not noticed it before now really, when brew doctor wouldn't work.

[ghost]

Fixed this by reinstalling Xcode. This time the original sample, not the gcc-without-xcode.

I suspect this were caused by the 10.7.3 update.

Thanks for taking the time though :)

[gpaul]

macos.rb: runs /usr/bin/mdfind
with a properly configured system it gets the first results really quickly but then proceeds to search the rest of the filesystem.
I've patched mine to do mdfind -onlyin /Applications and now it runs properly.
An alternative fix might be to read the output of the mdfind process until you've got your first result, then kill it and continue.