If I'd known I'd have troubles, I'd have kept a careful log of which errors occured under which conditions. Unfortunately, I tried what seemed obvious after looking at the man pages and message archives, so the following is a reconstruction from memory.
After doing 'portupgrade portupgrade', I got /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:34:in `require': No such file to load -- optparse (LoadError) After cvsup-ing ports, portsdb -uU and various portupgrade -r ruby portupgrade machinations, I started getting [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 266 packages found (-1 +2) (...)Cannot allocate memory: Cannot update the pkgdb!] After searching the message archives and make deinstall; make clean; make reinstall of ruby* and portupgrade, I got memory allocation errors like this # pkgdb -u [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 187 packages found (-4 +4) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:435:in `each': tried to allocate too big memory (NoMemoryError) from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:435:in `select' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:435:in `update_db' from /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:201:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:61:in `initialize' from /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:61:in `new' from /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:61:in `main' from /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb:914 I also updated to the latest stable world from yesterday (previously from 4 August) to no avail. Login.conf limits are untouched by me, and the current packages include # pkg_info -aI | egrep 'ruby|portup' | col1 portupgrade-20020921.1 ruby-1.6.7.2002.09.12 ruby-bdb1-0.1.7 ruby-shim-ruby18-1.7.3.2002.09.20 Anyone recognize this or have suggestions? __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message