portmanager -slid core dumps

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Friday 11 November 2005 14:53, Danny MacMillan wrote:
> Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > On Friday 11 November 2005 13:35, Danny MacMillan wrote:
> >>Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> >>>On Friday 11 November 2005 12:55, Danny MacMillan wrote:
> >>>>I am experiencing further difficulties with portmanager -slid.  I was
> >>>>successfully able to delete several leaf ports.  However, when I try to
> >>>>delete devel/p5-Locale-gettext or devel/gmake, portmanager core dumps
> >>>>with the following message:
> >>>>
> >>>>...
> >>>><n> Nuking gmake-3.80_2
> >>>>
> >>>>MGdbGoTop error: invalid object type, has this object been initialised
> >>>>with MGdbCreate or MGdbOpen yet?
> >>>>MGdbSeek error: invalid object type
> >>>>Assertion failed: (0), function MGdbSeek, file MGdbSeek.c, line 36.
> >>>>zsh: abort (core dumped)  sudo portmanager -slid
> >>>
> >>>What version of portmanager?
> >>
> >>rParseCommandLine 0.3.4_0
> >
> > OK, that is the most current version.  There isn't an obvious problem I
> > can see in the code but there is something that can be done better so
> > I'll make that change then we'll see what happens.  Are you running
> > FreeBSD 6.0 by any chance?
>
> Yes, I am.
>
> hobbit% uname -a
> FreeBSD hobbit.emerald-associates.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE
> #0: Wed Nov  9 04:09:55 MST 2005
> root at hobbit.emerald-associates.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HOBBIT  i386

This is why I didn't catch it earlier, 6.0 is more fussy about certain bad 
programming habits and I run 5.4.  Probably would have never found this if 
you hadn't reported so thanks again.

-Mike