Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:13:52 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Sahil Tandon <sahil@hamla.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Maxim Maximov <mcsi@mcsi.pp.ru> Subject: Re: portsdb -Uu results in coredump Message-ID: <p06110401bd62d747cf4c@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <413D21D4.9070109@hamla.org> References: <413BC4CD.5090201@hamla.org> <200409061533.39374.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <413BFFD7.50503@mcsi.pp.ru> <200409052337.01634.kstewart@owt.com> <413D21D4.9070109@hamla.org>
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At 10:49 PM -0400 9/6/04, Sahil Tandon wrote: >kstewart wrote: > >There is a bug in ruby that shows up as a bus error. Follow the >topic on -ports@. There are several ways to alter the INDEX[-5] >so that it occurs less frequently. > >Occurs less frequently? That's not what I'm looking for. Is there >a *fix* for the root cause? Oddly enough, there are a lot of other people who would also prefer a more complete fix. If we had a fix, we would install it and you wouldn't have to work around the problem. There are developers who are looking into the problem. I think the problem is really in bdb (which ruby is calling for database-work), and not in ruby itself. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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