portmanager confusion

[Matthew D. Fuller]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 04:08:04PM -1000 I heard the voice of
Randy Bush, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> # portversion -v
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 542 packages found (-534 +534) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:466: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-freebsd7]
> 
> Abort trap: 6 (core dumped)
> 
> as i said, i suspect a broken data structure in a file.  but what do
> i know?

The simple answer is "blow away the db file and rebuild it".  It takes
a couple minutes to do so on my system (with ~460 packages).


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