portupgrade crash on 4.9-stable

Michael Nottebrock michaelnottebrock at gmx.net
Thu Nov 18 10:14:08 PST 2004


On Thursday, 18. November 2004 01:31, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Thursday, 18. November 2004 00:03, Ronald Klop wrote:
> > > But the real problem is
> > > the segfault with ruby, which can be reliably reproduced ad infinitum.
> >
> > About the ruby thing. Try deinstall/reinstall of ruby and portupgrade
> > manually and try again. (This is my best guess.)
>
> Known problem - the berkeley db in libc is buggy and causes the crash.
>
> Workaround:
>
> Set PORTS_DBDRIVER in your environment (or in pkgtools.conf) to bdb_hash
                                                                  ^^^^^^^^
Typo, meant bdb1_hash. There's now an entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING about this 
issue, too (20041118).

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