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Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2004 19:18:44 -0400
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On Thursday, September 02, 2004 4:30:57 PM Dan Finn <dhrider@gmail.com> wrote:

|>Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:34:44 -0700
|>From: Dan Finn <dhrider@gmail.com>
|>Subject: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core
|>To: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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|>[ root @ stewie : /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade] : portupgrade ruby
|>[Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb
|><format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11725 port entries found
|>........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587:
|>[BUG] Bus Error
|>ruby 1.8.1 (2004-05-02) [i386-freebsd5]
|>
|>Abort trap (core dumped)
|>
|>Any ideas what could be causing this?  I recently installed portindex
|>and have been using that to generate indexes after reading someone
|>suggestion on one of the fbsd mailing lists.  I don't think I have
|>made any other changes recently.


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Thursday, September 02, 2004 7:15:17 PM


I am having the exact same problem. I thought it was just me.

Unfortunately, my system has become so unstable that I may have to dump
it and start over.

Gerard Seibert
gerard-seibert@rcn.com