Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 12:13:50 -0500 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Cc: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_version and no origin found == SEGFAULT Message-ID: <20020825171350.GA89121@leviathan.inethouston.net> In-Reply-To: <20020825130007.35cdd0b9.ak03@gte.com> References: <20020825164731.GA88696@leviathan.inethouston.net> <20020825130007.35cdd0b9.ak03@gte.com>
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> Have you checked your /var/db/pkg/<port_name>/+CONTENTS files? For some > reason some ports on my relatively stale -CURRENT box had these files > truncated to zero length, and this caused some package tools (namely > pkg_version) to crash. The procedure to read plist simply returns with > all plist struct members set to zero without indicating any errors when > CONTENTS file is empty, and the pkg_version crashes trying to > defererence null 'origin' pointer. This is exactly the problem I'm seeing and would explain why portupgrade -f fixes the problem for the port that causes the segfault. Shouldn't pkg_version handle this a little more gracefully? -- David W. Chapman Jr. dwcjr@inethouston.net Raintree Network Services, Inc. <www.inethouston.net> dwcjr@freebsd.org FreeBSD Committer <www.FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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