Ruby18 error

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Sunday 12 September 2004 11:22 am, michaela wrote:
> I'm running FreeBSD v4.10 on an older 233Mhz Intel machine
> w/64MBs RAM.  I upgraded the ports collection and sources after
> the install with no problems whatsoever.
>
> Just today I attempted to upgrade my ports_collection and
> sources, and while executing "portsdb -Uu" I got this weird
> error....
>
> webmail# portsdb -Uu
> [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [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]
>
> Abort (core dumped)
> webmail#
>
>
> The error generated a 10MB Coredump file which I tried sending to
> you, but couldn't compress it.
>
> Should I try to "Make Deinstall" RUBY18, and then "Make
> Reinstall" it again??
>
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michaela,

Deinstalling and reinstalling ruby18 will not help, and will slow 
down your fixing the problem.

There have been many posts concerning this problem, 
several work arounds have been posted on the various lists since 
September 9, it would be best if you looked at them and picked one 
you feel will work for you. If you pick one that involves installing 
ruby18-bsd, be sure you have ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 removed, or you're 
going to get a nasty surprise.

-- 
Donald J. O'Neill
donaldj1066 at fastmail.fm