Problem with libevent2 port

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mrjayviper

Hello. I have a very weird problem with the libevent2 (http://www.freshports.org/devel/libevent2/) port.

Every time I reboot my machine, some things goes awry. I am trying to run an app that depends on libevent2 and it won't run and throw out this error (see below).

The only fix I've found is to make deinstall libevent2 and then make install again and everything will be working fine until the next reboot. So I need to repeat the process again.

Any ideas what could be wrong? The only thing I can think of is a conflict with libevent (http://www.freshports.org/devel/libevent/) which is required by tmux.

Thanks very much in advance.

Code: 
root@my-pc : /usr/local/etc/rc.d                                                
=> ./transmission restart
transmission not running?
Starting transmission.
Shared object "libevent-2.0.so.6" not found, required by "transmission"
./transmission: WARNING: failed to start transmission

oot@my-pc : /usr/ports/devel/libevent2                                         
===>  Deinstalling for devel/libevent2
===>   Deinstalling 
pkg-static: You are trying to delete package(s) which has dependencies that are still required:
devel/libevent2: net-p2p/transmission-daemon
... delete these packages anyway in forced mode
Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages:

        libevent2-2.0.21_1

The deinstallation will free 2 MB
[1/1] Deleting libevent2-2.0.21_1...
libevent2-2.0.21_1 is required by: transmission-daemon-2.82_1, deleting anyway
 done

oot@my-pc : /usr/ports/devel/libevent2                                         
=> make install clean BATCH=yes
===>  License BSD accepted by the user
===>   libevent2-2.0.21_1 depends on file: /usr/local/sbin/pkg - found
===> Fetching all distfiles required by libevent2-2.0.21_1 for building
===>  Extracting for libevent2-2.0.21_1
snip...
===>   Registering installation for libevent2-2.0.21_1
Installing libevent2-2.0.21_1... done
===> SECURITY REPORT: 
      This port has installed the following files which may act as network
      servers and may therefore pose a remote security risk to the system.
/usr/local/lib/event2/libevent_extra-2.0.so.6
/usr/local/lib/event2/libevent_core-2.0.so.6
/usr/local/lib/event2/libevent-2.0.so.6

      If there are vulnerabilities in these programs there may be a security
      risk to the system. FreeBSD makes no guarantee about the security of
      ports included in the Ports Collection. Please type 'make deinstall'
      to deinstall the port if this is a concern.

      For more information, and contact details about the security
      status of this software, see the following webpage: 
http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
===>  Cleaning for libevent2-2.0.21_1

root@my-pc : /usr/ports/devel/libevent2
=> cd /usr/local/etc/rc.d/

root@my-pc : /usr/local/etc/rc.d
=> ./transmission restart
transmission not running?
Starting transmission.
 
After playing around with installing and uninstalling tmux and transmission, I concluded the problem does not lie with having tmux (which uses an earlier version of libevent).

I compiled transmission without using my custom make.conf and it worked fine. This lead to me thing the problem could lie in CPUTYPE. It was set to native and I changed it to "Athlon-sse3" and this worked fine!!! I knew there were reported problems with using "native" and Firefox but not really sure what else are affected.

So if you're having weird issues with ports you just installed, the problem may lie with using "native" as CPUTYPE.
 
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