portupgrade error with 7.0-BETA1

[Kris Kennaway]

Marc UBM Bocklet wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:45:59 +0100
> Marc "UBM" Bocklet <ubm at u-boot-man.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hiho! ;-)
>>
>> I just upgraded my machine to:
>>
>> FreeBSD blah.blah 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #6: Thu Oct 25 19:43:35
>> CEST 2007
>>
>> and then tried using portupgrade, which promptly fails with:
>>
>> Fatal error 'Cannot allocate red zone for initial thread' at line 382
>> in file /usr/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_init.c (errno = 12) 
>> Illegal instruction: 4 (core dumped)
>>
>> (the red zone error ist repeated about 20 times).
>>
>> I'm not sure if it has anything to do with the upgrade. I tried
>> deinstalling / reinstalling portupgrade and I also tried
>> portupgrade-devel, but they both keep failing with the above error.
>> Googling didn't yield any results.
>> I've also installed the compat6x port and included COMPAT_FREEBSD6 in
>> my kernel, but that didn't help either.
>>
>> Has anybody encountered this error before?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
> 
> A tip from Diane Bruce (db at freebsd.org) did the trick:
> 
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> 
> This one bit me as well. It's an obsolete library (libthr) in the
> binary, Recompile ruby18 and problem will go away.  You'll find other
> programs will do this too, but a lot of them disapear after doing a
> portupgrade.
> 
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...which is a necessary part of any upgrade to a new branch.

Kris