Subject: Re: broken package database?
To: Frank Knappe <knappe@tu-harburg.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/11/2002 21:42:30
On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:02:48AM +0200, Frank Knappe wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 07:26:21PM +0200, Frank Knappe wrote:
> > Not really. Maybe try to unlimit ? I suspect there are a lot of files to
> > register, maybe the package tools are running out of ressources (datasize
> > or stacksize probably)
> 
> How to do this?

in csh and derivative:
unlimit datasize
unlimit stacksize

in sh and derivatives:
ulimit -d `ulimit -H -d`
ulimit -s `ulimit -H -s`

> Is there some kind of useful information which I could get from the core
> file?

Probably, I'll let the pkg_* folks look at this

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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