Portinstall/upgrade stops with no error

[Doug Lee]

You said simply to try sysutils/portmanager.  I must have really made
a mess here:

Kirk 3#	portmanager -s
------------------------------------------------------------------------
PMGRrStatus 0.2.7_0 info: Creating inital data bases
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Kirk 3#	gdb /usr/local/bin/portmanager portmanager.core
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(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `portmanager'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libMG.1...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libPMGR.1...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
#0  0x280d3b74 in strstr () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
(gdb) bt
#0  0x280d3b74 in strstr () from /usr/lib/libc.so.4
#1  0x2806e618 in PMGRrAddDependencies () from /usr/local/lib/libPMGR.1
#2  0x2806ea9f in PMGRrDbCreate () from /usr/local/lib/libPMGR.1
#3  0x280724d5 in PMGRrShowLeaves () from /usr/local/lib/libPMGR.1
#4  0x8048df3 in PMGRrShowLeaves ()
#5  0x8048862 in PMGRrShowLeaves ()
#6  0x80487a2 in PMGRrShowLeaves ()
(gdb) 

I had no errors installing portmanager, though I think I had to use
make install.

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:09:14PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
On Friday 25 February 2005 09:26 pm, Doug Lee wrote:
> System: FreeBSD-STABLE (4.10).  Ports updated recently, but I've had
> trouble with the database and probably never straightened it out.
>
> Problem:  "portinstall lang/perl5.8" and other similar attempts to
> install ports abort quietly.  With -v, I just see session started,
> nothing installed or upgraded, session ended.  I can install any port
> via make install though (perl is going in now thus).  I have run
> pkgdb -fu, then pkgdb -F, then just in case, pkgdb -fu again; no
> change. I've run make index several times, but not today (this is a
> P166, so make index takes a while).
>
> I think my ports database must be irreparably hosed, but I welcome
> suggestions on how to salvage things. :-)
>
> Please Cc me.

Try sysutils/portmanager

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