RE: Trouble with Berkeley DB version 4.4.20?


-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Zbyslaw [mailto:xfb52@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: zaterdag 30 september 2006 20:14
To: Mark
Cc: 'FreeBSD-Questions Questions'
Subject: Re: Trouble with Berkeley DB version 4.4.20?

I have done this upgrade path for BerkeleyDB and Perl several times;
from 1.85 -> 4.1 -> 4.2, and now -> 4.4.20. It has always worked well.
Even now it compiles just fine. It just isn't stable anymore.

If someone out there has an idea, I'd really like to know.

I don't have any good answers for you, sorry. Probably no-one is answer-
ing because no-one active is doing anything with these particular pack-
age versions.

But, there is a port of BerkeleyDB (databases/p5-BerkeleyDB) which would
save you from having to mess around configuring config.in yourself. Just
set something like WITH_BDB_VER=44 (or 42 or...) in pkgtools.conf (for
portupgrade) or make.conf or on the command line. The port doesn't seem
to do any local patches so I wouldn't expect it to work any better for
you, unless you have been doing something wrong.

Thanks for answering. Really appreciate it.

I actually already tried p5-BerkeleyDB too. Had high hopes for it. It took
a good 10 minutes or so to compile a new gcc, 3.2.23, first; but after
that, everything went well. Except that it shows the same behavior.
Compile goes fine; "make tests" too. But my app core dumps every, say,
30 times it accesses BerkeleyDB.

I use 4.2 with p5-BerkeleyDB and no problems for me, but I do nothing
complicated - really just pretend it's 1.85 without bugs!

My BerkeleyDB 4.2 with Perl is rock-stable, too. Never a glitch of any kind.

If you don't need the functionality of 4.4 then downgrade back to 4.2
and keep an eye on the 4.4 and p5-BerkeleyDB ports, and try again in a
few months.

I think I'll do that. I believe BerkeleyDB 4.5 has just been released
already. I'll wait for it to appear in the ports. I do not actually need
the functionality of 4.4. Like you, I just use 4.2 as 1.85 without the
bugs. :) Upgrading just seemed like the thing to do. If you look at the
Sleepycat bug-list, it seems they fixed a whole lot of them since 4.2; but
I cannot say I ever really ran into one.

So, I'll wait for 4.5. Not much I can do. Should have been a pretty
straightforward upgrade; but it isn't. And analyzing a Perl core dump
without symbolic information is pretty useless too. Besides, from my own
debug markers I set, it does not core dump in the same place each time.
So, it's just that: unstable.

Thanks,

- Mark

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