portupgrade core dumps with a ruby in malloc(): error: allocationfailed

[Alex Soares de Moura]

Try recreating the database:

# pkgdb -fu

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Mx" <lee_ver_mx at hotmail.com>
To: <ports at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:37 AM
Subject: portupgrade core dumps with a ruby in malloc(): error:
allocationfailed


> When I execute portupgrade on current I get the following:
>
> # portupgrade -Rruiap
> --->  Session started at: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 05:26:44 -0600
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 296 packages
> found (-7 +7) (...)ruby in malloc(): error: allocation failed
> Abort (core dumped)
>
> I had a similar problem with gaim-0.75 and it was fixed with a suggestion
> from current ml to create a link to malloc.conf
>
> ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf
>
> This was happening before the link so it isn't caused by it but the link
> didn't help with rubyr.  Is anyone else seeing this on 5.2 and/or current.
> Do any of the ports folks have a suggestion as to a fix although it
doesn't
> really seem to be a port problem directly.
>
> Thanks,
>
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