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Subject: Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core
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On Thursday 02 September 2004 04:02 pm, Dan Finn <dhrider@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 23:22:26 +0100, Steve Hodgson
> <steve@howes-macnaghten.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 September 2004 19:34, Dan Finn wrote:
> > > [ 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
> > >.........6
> > > 000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.
> > >8/portsdb.r b:587: [BUG] Bus Error
> > > ruby 1.8.1 (2004-05-02) [i386-freebsd5]
> >
> > I have just had the same thing happen to me, and I'm unable to fix
> > it by using pkgdb or portsdb. I just portupgraded kde3 using the
> > instructions in /usr/ports/UPDATING and also updated the nvidia
> > drivers. I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9.
> >
> > --->  Checking the package registry database
> > Stale dependency: gnome2-2.6.2 -> nvidia-driver-1.0.6113
> > (x11/nvidia-driver): [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format']
> > [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11726
> > port entries found
> > .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000..
> >.......6000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ru
> >by/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Bus Error
> > ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd5]
> >
> > Abort trap (core dumped)
> >
> > Any ideas, or suggestions appreciated.
>
> I ended up having to move /usr/ports out of the way and doing a fresh
> cvsup.  I am not sure why but this fixed it.

I tried this and still got the same error. Mine isn't choking on 
nvidia-driver, though. Also tried reinstalling ruby, still the same 
error.

- jt