core dump with portupgrade

[Matthew Seaman]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 04:55:38PM -0500, Anthony Philipp wrote:
> Hello, when I was trying to upgrade my laptop with the latest ports this is what happened. 
> 
> 
> 
> (16:50:29) root at jigen /home/philipp1 1# portupgrade -arR
> Stale dependency: ORBit-0.5.17_1 --> gettext-0.12.1 -- manually run 'pkgdb -F' t
> o fix, or specify -O to force.
> (16:51:17) root at jigen /home/philipp1 2# pkgdb -F
> --->  Checking the package registry database
> Duplicated origin: textproc/expat2 - expat-1.95.6_1 expat-1.95.7
> Unregister any of them? [no] 
> Duplicated origin: databases/ruby-bdb1 - ruby-bdb1-0.2.1 ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2
> Unregister any of them? [no] yes
>   Unregister ruby-bdb1-0.2.1 keeping the installed files intact? [no] yes
>   -> ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2 is kept.
>   --> Saving the ruby-bdb1-0.2.1's +CONTENTS file as /var/db/pkg/ruby18-bdb1-0.2.2/+CONTENTS.ruby-bdb1-0.2.1
>   --> Unregistering ruby-bdb1-0.2.1
>   --> Done.
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 284 packages found (-1 +0) (...) done]
> Stale dependency: ORBit-0.5.17_1 -> gettext-0.12.1 (devel/gettext):
> [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11733 port entries found .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000......./usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd5]
> 
> Abort trap (core dumped)
> 
> 
> 
> Also the same thing happened when I did portsdb -Uu or portversion -l "<"
> I can post those if required, and this is highly reproducible, so just ask if you need more info.

You're not the only one to have been bitten by this.  Search the
archives for extensive mailing list traffic on this subject -- but in
short, a work around is:

    # setenv PORTS_DBDDRIVER bdb1_hash

before you start running portsdb(1) or portupgrade(1).

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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