From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 21:15:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7014B37B401 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:15:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from knyghtmare.com (pc1-darl1-6-cust123.mid.cable.ntl.com [213.105.18.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACC3D43E86 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:15:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knyghtmare@knyghtmare.com) Received: from knyghtmare (knyghtmare@knyghtmare [213.105.18.123]) by knyghtmare.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g984FMw3002050 for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2002 05:15:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from knyghtmare@knyghtmare.com) Subject: portupgrade problem From: Tom Carrick To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-3rPzs3blRMt+zfR5/ZNe" X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 08 Oct 2002 05:15:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1034050523.370.13.camel@knyghtmare.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-3rPzs3blRMt+zfR5/ZNe Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I was using portupgrade happily upgrading my ports, when it barfed in the middle of something. I don't remember exactly what, I think it could have been links or libslang. I don't remember the exact error, only that it had something to do with memory. So I assumed there just wasn't enough available. I checked with top, and I still had a good 50MB of RAM available, and most of my swap space (500MB orso) free. Fair enough. So I try to continue. It fails on the package upgrade. Trying to find out what fails, I tried pkgdb -u. Failed. Same error. I tried deleting portupgrade and installing it again, to no effect. It invariably, depending on the phase of the moon, I suppose, gives one of two errors, either: root@knyghtmare:/root# pkgdb -u [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 325 packages found (-3 +2) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:435: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.6.7 (2002-09-12) [i386-freebsd4] Abort (core dumped) or... root@knyghtmare:/root# pkgdb -u [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 325 packages found (-3 +2) (...)Cannot allocate memory: Cannot update the pkgdb!] I've tried rebooting. Doesn't seem to help, and it was working fine until it barfed on me. I've tried deleting links and libslang, too, in case it messed the database somehow. That's still my best theory, though deleting them didn't help. Anyone have any ideas? --=-3rPzs3blRMt+zfR5/ZNe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA9olvaRhxQpFRYpjsRAvfQAJwKdodGm8ur/a2HKRxuqeCftv1b9QCgzzQ/ yKd7NI5i/TTzXcuWrL9gBa0= =rE/3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-3rPzs3blRMt+zfR5/ZNe-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message