[ruby18] bus error when updating portsdb

Jason Harmening gte990t at mail.gatech.edu
Fri Sep 3 07:18:35 PDT 2004


I added a debug printf to portsdb.rb at line 586, and the bus error always 
occurs at the entry for py23-bsddb3-4.2.4.  Don't know if this means 
anything, but it may be useful.

> Hi,
>
> I'm having the following problem whenever I run portsdb -Uu or portupgrade:
>
> Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/tmp ... - 11725 port
> entries found
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6
>000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.r
>b:587: [BUG] Bus Error
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd5]
>
> Abort (core dumped)
>
> The bus error always occurs at exactly the same location (just past the
> 8000th entry) in the portsdb.  I run portsdb/portupgrade weekly and just
> began having this problem tonight.  System is 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 i386.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason Harmening


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