That worked great, thanks. Can you give me some explanation on why (and how) this happens, and in what way it messes up?
On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 07:35, Adam Weinberger wrote: > 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 << > > > -- > "Oh good, my dog found the chainsaw." > -Lilo, "Lilo & Stitch" > Adam Weinberger > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >
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