portupgrade crash on 4.9-stable

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Wed Nov 17 16:32:06 PST 2004


On Thursday, 18. November 2004 00:03, Ronald Klop wrote:
> > But the real problem is
> > the segfault with ruby, which can be reliably reproduced ad infinitum.

> About the ruby thing. Try deinstall/reinstall of ruby and portupgrade
> manually and try again. (This is my best guess.)

Known problem - the berkeley db in libc is buggy and causes the crash. 

Workaround:

Set PORTS_DBDRIVER in your environment (or in pkgtools.conf) to bdb_hash (or 
install databases/ruby-bdb and set PORTS_DBDRIVER to bdb_btree).

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