portupgrade problems on 4.x

[Anton Berezin]

On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 08:54:21AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:46 +0200, Anton Berezin wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:25:29PM +0200, Jake Lloyd wrote:
> > > [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb 
> > > <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 13190 port entries found 
> > > .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000........./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:613: 
> > > [BUG] Segmentation fault
> > > ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-freebsd4]
> > > 
> > > Abort (core dumped)
> > 
> > Just another data point - I also experienced that after ruby upgrade on
> > a couple of 4.X systems.

> I believe this is a known problem with the Berkeley DB in the base
> system which has proved very difficult to track down; nobody's been able
> to pin down the exact circumstances in which it's triggered.  The
> workaround is to tell portupgrade to use a format other than bdb1_btree:
> 
> export PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
> export PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash

Yup, that was it, thanks.  Funny I did not experience that before on the
machines.


On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 03:33:58PM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote:

> Looks like the old bug in the base-db. What version of 4.x do these
> boxes run exactly? 4.11-Release and later have a fix, earlier versions
> don't.

Well, in my case it is a tad difficult to say, they are jails with
unidentified userland >= 4.8.  <o>

Thanks,
\Anton.
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