pkgdb failures

[Garrett Cooper]

Yuri wrote:
> I deleted this file: /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and then pkgdb -fu succeeded.
> But next time I ran I got the same error with /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db.
> Then this error disappear.
>
> So it's most likely the bug with Berkeley DB.
> Anybody else has these kind of problems?
>
> Yuri
>
>
> Quoting Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>:
>
>   
>> While doing portupgrade I am sporadically getting the error like below.
>> After I ran 'pkgdb -fu' few times and this cured tye problem. But then
>> after
>> a while of portupgrade run I now get the error:
>>
>>     
>>> pkgdb -fu
>>> --->  Updating the pkgdb
>>> [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ...
>>>       
>> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: >unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument:
>> Cannot update the pkgdb!]
>>
>> man pkgdb says:
>> BUGS
>>      Sometimes a database may get corrupt, and the pkgtools commands may
>> abort
>>      with a segmentation fault.  In such cases, run ``pkgdb -fu'' to
>> rebuild
>>      the database, and the problems should go away.
>>
>> So what should I do now to upgrade ports?
>>
>> Yuri
>>
>> -- error log during portupgrade --
>> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument
>> ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFOQ
>> --->  Skipping 'net/openldap23-client'
>> --->  Reinstalling 'tcl-8.4.16,1' (lang/tcl84)
    Yes, it's partly caused by pkgdb and/or how Ruby / pkgdb handles the 
DB I think...
    1. What type of BDB structure do you use [most likely btree(1) -- 
says this during the pkgdb rebuild..]?
    2. What version of BDB are you using (1.85, 2.x or 4.x) [(cd 
/usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portinstall && make config) will give you that info]?
    3. uname -a says?
-Garrett