Illegal instruction (core dumped)

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2014, LtCdData wrote:

> Hi,
> I am getting a core dump with both portmaster and portupgrade which ends with the dupdates being skipped. I have tried a database rebuild but it is still dumping.
> Anyone know how to fix this?
>
> [Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 1309 packages found - done]
> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 24470 port entries found ** Stale lock file was found. Removed.
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000.........17000.........18000.........19000.
> Illegal instruction (core dumped)
> Cleaning out /usr/ports/*/*/work...

portsdb is part of portupgrade.  So rebuild portupgrade, or more likely, 
its dependencies like ruby and databases/ruby-bdb.  Alternatively, 
switch to portmaster because it is a good replacement for portupgrade 
without all the overhead.