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Date:      Sun, 24 Nov 2002 00:11:37 -0600 (CST)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
To:        "Janine C.Buorditez" <johann@broadpark.no>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
Subject:   Re: What happened to my ports system?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20021124001137.conrads@cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021122165336.40ac5651.johann@broadpark.no>

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On 22-Nov-2002 Janine C.Buorditez wrote:
> That didn't work :/
> 
> Thanks anyway,
> Janine
> 
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 13:30:15 +0100
> Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 02:11:56PM +0100, Janine C. Buorditez wrote:
>> > Hi.
>> > 
>> > This message comes no matter what I do with portupgrade:
>> > 
>> > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 230
>> > packages found (-7 +1)
>> > (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:375: [BUG]
>> > Segmentation fault
>> > ruby 1.6.7 (2002-05-23) [i386-freebsd4]
>> > Abort (core dumped)
>> > 
>> You probably caught it in mid-update .. I had this problem yesterday but
>> in a different place. Try re-cvsupping it and do it again. This happens
>> with stable sometimes.

I ran into this problem once not too long ago.  I think it was the result
of running multiple portupgrades at once, which caused the database to
become corrupted.

Just delete /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db, then run pkgdb -u again.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>

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