Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:53:41 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkgdb core dumb Message-ID: <200603231153.42052.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <001501c64e94$6e6384e0$0201a8c0@KA2NB> References: <001501c64e94$6e6384e0$0201a8c0@KA2NB>
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On Thursday 23 March 2006 11:11, Kaveh Ahmadian wrote: > After a recent update, whenever I try to run the pkgdb (or any other > command that in turn calls pkgdb I get an error resulting in a core dump: > > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 24 packages > found (-1 +2) (...).ruby18 in free(): error: chunk is already free > Abort (core dumped) I've seen this a number of times; it usually means a corrupt pkgdb. Rebuild it from scratch (pkgdb -fu). If that fails or if you still get the error afterwards, rebuild and reinstall portupgrade and ruby (without using portupgrade in the process). Run 'pkgdb -fu' again after the reinstall. JN
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