portsdb -Uu results in coredump

[Rob B]

At 12:00 PM 6/09/2004, Sahil Tandon wrote:
>After a cvsup yesterday, I get this after trying to portsdb -Uu:
>
>Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait.. Done.
>done
>[Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11736 port 
>entries found 
>.........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: 
>[BUG] Bus Error
>ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4]
>
>I tried removing the ports directory and rebuilding (cvsup'ing) entirely, 
>but the error remains.  What's the problem?

For the record (as posted to ports@) the Alpha arch does not exhibit this 
problem (yay!)

Cheers,
Rob


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