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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:51:32 +0100
From:      Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Tsu-Fan Cheng <tfcheng@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: pkg_delete core dump
Message-ID:  <200811180651.33337.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
In-Reply-To: <200811180518.38658.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Tuesday 18 November 2008 05:18:37 Mel wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2008 22:15:32 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
> > Hi Mel,
> >    thank you for your help, now I recompile pkg_install and run
> > pkg_delete again, under print/acroread8 it still coredump. here is the
> > result:
> >
> > # gdb pkg_delete pkg_delete.core
> > GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD]
> > Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
> > are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> > conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
> > details. This GDB was configured as "i386-marcel-freebsd"...
> > Core was generated by `pkg_delete'.
> > Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> > Reading symbols from /lib/libmd.so.4...done.
> > Loaded symbols for /lib/libmd.so.4
> > Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.7...done.
> > Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.7
> > Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done.
> > Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> > #0  0x2815dae6 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.7
> > (gdb) bt
> > #0  0x2815dae6 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.7
> > #1  0x0804b50c in isinstalledpkg (name=0x0)
> >     at /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/match.c:374
>
> There's the culprit. strcmp called on a null pointer. The reason is that
> the +CONTENTS file contains corrupted data. Most likely a @pkgdep line
> without a package name. Could you show the output of:
> grep @pkgdep /var/db/pkg/acroread8-8.1.2_2/+CONTENTS

Actually, considering it comes from undepend, could you also include:
cat /var/db/pkg/acroread8-8.1.2_2/+REQUIRED_BY

-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.



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