Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?

[Mire, John]

I'm still getting this error after a cvsup+buildworld, a make fetchindex and
I have deleted /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and rebuilt it, what's the patch?:

test# uname -v
FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 #12: Wed Oct  6 17:13:13 CDT 2004
root at test:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TEST 
test# cd /usr/ports
test# make fetchindex
Receiving INDEX-5 (5881230 bytes): 100%
5881230 bytes transferred in 16.9 seconds (339.01 kBps)
test# portupgrade -R sudo
[Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb
<format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11735 port entries found
.........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........60
00.........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 (core dumped)
test# rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
test# portupgrade -R sudo
[Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 54 packages
found (-0 +54) ...................................................... done]
[Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb
<format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11735 port entries found
.........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........60
00.........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 (core dumped)
test#  


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Matthew Seaman
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 4:14 AM
> To: Matt Navarre
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?
> 
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 06:14:18PM -0700, Matt Navarre wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 September 2004 05:13, Alex de Kruijff wrote:
> 
> > > It could be a problem with the DBDriver. You could try this:
> > > Edit /root/.cs...
> > > and add
> > > PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
> > > PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
> 
> > Doesn't the DBDRIVER bug result in ruby dumping core? 'Cuz 
> it isn't in this 
> > case, it fails gracefully.
> 
> The core dump is seen with portsdb(1) trying to create
> /usr/ports/INDEX.db -- however, the underlying bug can affect anywhere
> that ruby uses bdb1_btree files.  pkgdb(1) occasionally going a bit
> funny is a problem that's been known about for some time; usually just
> deleting and rebuilding /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db will sort things out.
> However, I don't think anyone had ever tracked down the root cause of
> the problem.  Then the portsdb coredumping thing came along, and it
> seems an obvious conclusion that the same thing might be affecting
> both programs.
> 
> Note that a fix for the bdb1_btree problem has been in HEAD for a few
> weeks, and was MFC'd to both RELENG_4 and RELENG_5 a week or so ago.
> So an alternative fix could be cvsup+buildworld.  Unfortunately, I
> don't think the fix will be applied to any of the existing 4.x-RELEASE
> or 5.x-RELEASE branches -- it will of course be in 5.3-RELEASE when
> that comes out, and it's pretty easy to do if you want to patch things
> yourself.
>  
> > I'll go ahead and try this, but I suspect that the 
> /var/db/pkg info for 
> > gnucash or one of it's dependancies got horked up. We'll see.
> > 
> > > Then execute this in your shell also. Then do:
> > > pkgdb -u && portsdb -u && portupgrade -R gnucash
> 
> Yup.  That should ensure you get a clean install of gnucash and all of
> its dependencies.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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