pkgdb problem!

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:39:37 -0500 (EST)
Tsu-Fan Cheng <tscheng at ic.sunysb.edu> wrote:

> Hi BSDers, I run pkgdb -F and get this:
> 
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 433 packages
> found (-21 +58) (...)Cannot allocate memory: Cannot update the pkgdb!]
> 
> never has happened to me before, what's wrong?

> From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at apropo.ro>
> To: jwb at homer.att.com
> Cc: ports at FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: portupgrade-20040208
> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:16:31 +0200
> 
>  On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 08:51:59 -0500
>  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com> wrote:
> 
>  > After upgrading portupgrade and ruby, I started getting the following error:
>  [..]
>  > .rb:467:in `select': failed to allocate memory (NoMemoryError)
>  [..]
> 
>  Happened here too.
> 
>  First try to remove your /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db (backup first). Do a pkg_db -F.
> 
>  If it ain't working or you still got the problem, make deinstall for portupgrade and  all ruby*. 
>  make install ruby18, portupgrade, do a pkgdb -F, install the rest of removed ruby*


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