Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 23:35:26 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adam@vectors.cx> To: Tom Carrick <knyghtmare@knyghtmare.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade problem Message-ID: <20021008063525.GK81796@vectors.cx> In-Reply-To: <1034050523.370.13.camel@knyghtmare.com> References: <1034050523.370.13.camel@knyghtmare.com>
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try portsdb -fu. the switches are easy enough to remember ::P.
portupgrade dies from time to time, and that command can often get you
back in business.
-Adam
>> (10.07.2002 @ 2115 PST): Tom Carrick said, in 2.0K: <<
> 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 <format:bdb1_btree> 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 <format:bdb1_btree> 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?
>> end of "portupgrade problem" from Tom Carrick <<
--
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-Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch"
Adam Weinberger
adam@vectors.cx
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