Portupgrade seg. fault

[Tabor Kelly]

Michael Shafae wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 system which I have installed  
> portupgrade--20040701_3, ruby-1.8.2.p2_1, and ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2.
> 
> Previously upgrading ports were effortless with portupgrade. Today, I  
> first CVSUP'ed the ports tree, read /usr/ports/CHANGES and ran `make  
> index`. Then I tried to upgrade various ports and it all failed with  
> portupgrade seg-faulting.
> 
> For example:
> [188] [13:15]lou% sudo portupgrade tiff
> [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb  
> <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11959 port entries found  
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000....... 
> ./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Segmentation  
> fault
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4]
> 
> Abort (core dumped)

Check (http://tabor.taborandtashell.net/serversetup/ports.html), it is 
one of the three things addressed on this page.