Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 11:13:40 +0200 (CEST) From: <ogautherot@freesurf.fr> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Broken pkgdb and ruby core dump... Message-ID: <50257.212.157.144.34.1092302020.squirrel@jose.freesurf.fr>
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Hi! I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with a number of updates (thanks in advance for copying me on answers as I had to unsusbscribe to this list due to high traffic). After installing a package (I'm updating KDE and GNOME), I suddenly got the error message: [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_tree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 614 packages found (-10 +77) (...)ruby18 in malloc(): error: allocation failed Abort (core dumped) # I can confirm that the core is really dumped :-) I get this message upon each (direct or indirect) invocation of pkgdb - the number of packages to update varies though... Is there a way to fix the database? I seem to have this problem on a regular basis and could fix it so far... only by reinstalling the system! I suspect there must be a "pkg fsck" somewhere... I can rebuild it by deleteing /var/db/pkg and rebuild all the packages manually but I have more fun plans than rerunning "make install clean" on 614 packages :-) Thanks in advance Olivier
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