Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:07:57 +0200 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org> Cc: Jake Lloyd <legalois@acm.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade problems on 4.x Message-ID: <20050715140757.GA93241@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <200507151534.03865.lofi@freebsd.org> <1121432061.69679.3.camel@tirun> References: <42D7AB39.30803@acm.org> <20050715124604.GB84686@heechee.tobez.org> <200507151534.03865.lofi@freebsd.org> <42D7AB39.30803@acm.org> <20050715124604.GB84686@heechee.tobez.org> <1121432061.69679.3.camel@tirun>
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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:54:21AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:46 +0200, Anton Berezin wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:25:29PM +0200, Jake Lloyd wrote: > > > [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb > > > <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 13190 port entries found > > > .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000........./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:613: > > > [BUG] Segmentation fault > > > ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-freebsd4] > > > > > > Abort (core dumped) > > > > Just another data point - I also experienced that after ruby upgrade on > > a couple of 4.X systems. > I believe this is a known problem with the Berkeley DB in the base > system which has proved very difficult to track down; nobody's been able > to pin down the exact circumstances in which it's triggered. The > workaround is to tell portupgrade to use a format other than bdb1_btree: > > export PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash > export PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash Yup, that was it, thanks. Funny I did not experience that before on the machines. On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:33:58PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > Looks like the old bug in the base-db. What version of 4.x do these > boxes run exactly? 4.11-Release and later have a fix, earlier versions > don't. Well, in my case it is a tad difficult to say, they are jails with unidentified userland >= 4.8. <o> Thanks, \Anton. -- The moronity of the universe is a monotonically increasing function. -- Jarkko Hietaniemi
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