Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:12:02 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, "Donald J. O'Neill" <duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Subject: Re: portmanager confusion Message-ID: <20060314021202.GB58250@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <17430.9604.354593.968868@roam.psg.com> References: <17428.48090.416936.142264@roam.psg.com> <200603130644.04315.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <17429.38749.849413.396269@roam.psg.com> <200603131753.15083.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> <17430.9604.354593.968868@roam.psg.com>
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:08:04PM -1000 I heard the voice of Randy Bush, and lo! it spake thus: > > # portversion -v > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 542 packages found (-534 +534) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:466: [BUG] Segmentation fault > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-freebsd7] > > Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) > > as i said, i suspect a broken data structure in a file. but what do > i know? The simple answer is "blow away the db file and rebuild it". It takes a couple minutes to do so on my system (with ~460 packages). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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