Upgrading gnome

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Gordon Gilbert wrote:
> On Sun, 15 May 2005, Erich Dollansky wrote:
> 
>> Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 20:34:46 +0800
>> From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare at pacific.net.sg>
>> To: Gordon Gilbert <gord at angel.eicat.ca>
>> Cc: gnome at FreeBSD.org
>> Subject: Re: Upgrading gnome
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Gordon Gilbert wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> (eval):5: [BUG] Segmentation fault
>>> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-freebsd5]
>>>
>>> Abort trap (core dumped)
>>
>>
>> This looks like a message I got two days ago.
>>
>> What version of FreeBSD are you running?
>>
>>> I had noticed the same thing happening when I was trying to 
>>> portupgrade other things.  How do I a) work around this or b) fix 
>>> this?  Other 
>>
>>
>> Yes, this lookes to me like a problem with Ruby. But it was cause by 
>> something else, at least at my machine.
>>
>> Erich
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for replying.  My version of FreeBSD is 5.3.  I too was thinking 
> that the problem is with Ruby.  Does this mean I should remove those 
> three pkgs?  If so, how?  "pkg_delete"? or some other way?
> 
I have had this problem after an failed upgrade to 5.4. I have had to 
rebuild both the kernel and the world and the problem disappeared.

Removing the package and reinstalling did not help in my case.

You might wait until somebody else has a better option for you.

Erich