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Date:      Sun, 12 Sep 2004 10:10:44 +0100 (BST)
From:      Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk>
To:        Dan Swartzendruber <dswartz@druber.com>
Cc:        Erwan David <Erwan.David@trusted-logic.fr>
Subject:   Re: Re: portsdb -Uu results in coredump
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.61.0409121009010.20443@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20040910143012.021fd068@127.0.0.1>
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On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> At 02:43 AM 9/9/2004, Erwan David wrote:
> > Le Mon  6/09/2004, Daniel O'Connor disait
> > > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 11:30, Sahil Tandon wrote:
> > > > After a cvsup yesterday, I get this after trying to portsdb -Uu:
> > > >
> > > > Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. Done.
> > > > done
> > > > [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11736 port
> > > > entries found
> > > >
> > .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6
> > > >000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/port
> > sdb.r
> > > >b:587: [BUG] Bus Error
> > > > ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4]
> > > >
> > > > I tried removing the ports directory and rebuilding (cvsup'ing)
> > > > entirely, but the error remains.  What's the problem?
> > >
> > > You need to upgrade ruby18..
> > >
> > > Try
> > > pkg_delete -f ruby-1.8\*
> > > cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18
> > > make install
> > 
> > I got same problem with an up to date ruby 1.8
> > 
> > a make fetchindex in /usr/ports solved the problem.
> 
> it didn't for me, unfortunately :(
> 
> 
> -su-2.05b# pwd
> /usr/ports
> -su-2.05b# make fetchindex
> Receiving INDEX-5 (5873261 bytes): 100% (ETA 00:00)
> 5873261 bytes transferred in 133.9 seconds (42.83 kBps)
> -su-2.05b# sync
> -su-2.05b# portsdb -Uu
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Warning:
> Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_jk2-apache2-2.0.2
> Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_rpaf-ap2-0.5
>  Done.
> done
> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11734 port
> entries found
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587:
> [BUG] Bus Error
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd5]
> 
> Abort trap (core dumped)

Solutions (well, workarounds) to this exist. For example, add this line 
to /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf:

  ENV['PORTS_DBDRIVER'] ||= 'bdb1_hash'

and the bug isn't tickled.


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