On Thursday 23 March 2006 11:11, Kaveh Ahmadian wrote: > After a recent update, whenever I try to run the pkgdb (or any other > command that in turn calls pkgdb I get an error resulting in a core dump: > > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 24 packages > found (-1 +2) (...).ruby18 in free(): error: chunk is already free > Abort (core dumped)
I've seen this a number of times; it usually means a corrupt pkgdb. Rebuild it from scratch (pkgdb -fu). If that fails or if you still get the error afterwards, rebuild and reinstall portupgrade and ruby (without using portupgrade in the process). Run 'pkgdb -fu' again after the reinstall. JN _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
