Re: bin/48232: pkg_delete signal 11 when deleting large packages on small-RAM boxes

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/48232; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/48232: pkg_delete signal 11 when deleting large packages on
 small-RAM boxes
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 09:53:24 +0200

 On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 10:20:00PM +0000, swift.griggs%trizetto.com@localhost 
wrote:
 > >Description:
 > Trying to pkg_delete firefox I get this:
 > 
 > # pkg_delete firefox 
 > Memory fault 
 > # echo $?
 > 139
 > 
 > Here are the last few lines when I ktruss it:
 > 
 >   5046      1 pkg_delete write(0x2, 0x8052513, 0x1) = 1
 >        "\n"
 >   5046      1 pkg_delete SIGSEGV SIG_DFL
 
 anything relevant in dmesg ?
 
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 
 > Install firefox-22.0 then try to delete it on a single processor machine 
 > with 2GB of RAM. Then use pkg_delete to remove the package. 
 
 This is not a "small ram box". I use pkg tools on systems with 256MB ram or
 less ...
 
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