portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

[Steve Hodgson]

On Thursday 02 September 2004 19:34, Dan Finn wrote:
> [ root @ stewie : /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade] : portupgrade ruby
> [Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb
> <format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11725 port entries found
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6
>000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.r
>b:587: [BUG] Bus Error
> ruby 1.8.1 (2004-05-02) [i386-freebsd5]
>
I have just had the same thing happen to me, and I'm unable to fix it by using 
pkgdb or portsdb. I just portupgraded kde3 using the instructions 
in /usr/ports/UPDATING and also updated the nvidia drivers. I'm running 
FreeBSD 5.2.1-p9.

--->  Checking the package registry database
Stale dependency: gnome2-2.6.2 -> nvidia-driver-1.0.6113 (x11/nvidia-driver):
[Failed `Inappropriate file type or format'] [Updating the portsdb 
<format:bdb1_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 11726 port entries 
found .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000..../usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: 
[BUG] Bus Error
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd5]

Abort trap (core dumped)

Any ideas, or suggestions appreciated.

Steve