Fixing Another Problem with Ports

Today while using portupgrade to update my ports tree, I ran into this problem. The process was trying to upgrade OpenMortal when it died:

--->  Uninstallation of openmortal-0.6 ended at: Sat, 01 May 2004 18:26:13 -0400
 (consumed 00:02:22)
--->  Upgrade of games/openmortal ended at: Sat, 01 May 2004 18:26:13 -0400 (con
sumed 00:02:28)
[Updating the pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... - 258 packages found
(-1 +0) (...)ruby18 in malloc(): error: allocation failed
Abort (core dumped)

That didn't look good. I tried this and got similar results:

orr:/root# portversion -v
[Updating the pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... - 258 packages found
(-1 +0) (...)ruby18 in malloc(): error: allocation failed
Abort (core dumped)

At this point I decided to try rebuilding the package database:

orr:/var/db/pkg# mv pkgdb.db pkgdb.db.broken
orr:/var/db/pkg# pkgdb -F
--->  Checking the package registry database
[Rebuilding the pkgdb  in /var/db/pkg ... - 258 packages foun
d (-0 +258) ....................................................................
................................................................................
................................................................................
.............................. done]

Now everything works, although OpenMortal is no longer installed. I reinstalled it from /usr/ports/packages/All, which is a NFS mount to my package builder:

orr:/root# cd /usr/ports/packages/All
orr:/usr/ports/packages/All# pkg_add -v openmortal-0.7.tbz 
Requested space: 205905528 bytes, free space: 2372941824 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.RTmsXw
...truncated...