From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 04:44:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 498A816A4CE for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 04:44:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC60D43D53 for ; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 04:44:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i873DrL6014190; Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:13:54 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <413D21D4.9070109@hamla.org> References: <413BC4CD.5090201@hamla.org> <200409061533.39374.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <413BFFD7.50503@mcsi.pp.ru> <200409052337.01634.kstewart@owt.com> <413D21D4.9070109@hamla.org> Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:13:52 -0400 To: Sahil Tandon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: Maxim Maximov Subject: Re: portsdb -Uu results in coredump X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 04:44:50 -0000 At 10:49 PM -0400 9/6/04, Sahil Tandon wrote: >kstewart wrote: > >There is a bug in ruby that shows up as a bus error. Follow the >topic on -ports@. There are several ways to alter the INDEX[-5] >so that it occurs less frequently. > >Occurs less frequently? That's not what I'm looking for. Is there >a *fix* for the root cause? Oddly enough, there are a lot of other people who would also prefer a more complete fix. If we had a fix, we would install it and you wouldn't have to work around the problem. There are developers who are looking into the problem. I think the problem is really in bdb (which ruby is calling for database-work), and not in ruby itself. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu