portupgrade problem

[Vince Hoffman]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 11, 2004 at 04:05:17PM +0100, Vince Hoffman wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 	Got a port upgrade problem here, ruby is dumping core during a
>> portsdb -uU (and thus any time it tries to update the portsdb.

<<SNIP lots of info>>

>>
>> any suggestions welcome
>
> Gawd.  Not this *again*.  Did you try searhing the web at all?
>
>   http://freebsd.rambler.ru/srch?words=%5BBUG%5D+Bus+Error+%3E+ruby+1.8.2+%282004-07-29%29+%5Bi386-freebsd5%5D+solution&set=freebsd

Doh no, since i try and read as much of -questions and -current I 
thought I would have caught it on the lists ;)
Thanks for the help (again)

Vince
>
> Anyhow, a work-around is to:
>
>    % setenv PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
>
> and then do all your portupgrade stuff as usual.
>
> The problem is with the bdb1_btree functions in the base system.  A
> fix has been committed to HEAD, RELENG_4 and RELENG_5.  It won't be
> applied to RELENG_5_2, so either you're going to have to extract the
> patch yourself and apply it manually, or you can upgrade to one of the
> 5.3-BETAs.
>
>    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/db/btree/bt_split.c.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.7
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew
>
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