Error in updating INDEX.db

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Apr 27 13:08:03 PDT 2004


On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:57:30PM +0200, Pavel Kolar wrote:
> I cannot often generate the INDEX.db ports database file (5.2.1-RELEASE) 
> with the following (bug) message:
> 
> # portsdb -fu
> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 10793 port 
> entries found 
> .........1000.........2000.........3000......../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: 
> [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-freebsd5]
> ------------

As the message says, this is a bug (apparently in ruby).  Talk to the
author or the ruby developers.

Kris
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