Re: Crash and reboot during pkgsrc update

[Mitt Green <mitt_green%yahoo.com@localhost>]

Hi again,

So, I removed /var/db/pkgin/pkgin.db, after that I could update the 
database, but trying to install
memtestplus it crashed and rebooted again.

Cheers

On 17/10/2015 19:16, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Mitt Green <mitt_green%yahoo.com@localhost> writes:
>
> > I am trying to update pkgsrc via CVS but it keeps crashing and the
> > system reboots itself.  The same thing was when I previously was
> > trying to install gdk-pixbuf2-xlib.
> >
> > I decided to update pkgsrc because when I have been trying to install
> > something using pkgin since today, the error "Database disk image is
> > malformed", thinking this can solve the issue.
> >
> > System: NetBSD 7.0, amd64.
> Your issues are probably not about pkgsrc.  I recommend:
>
>   - running memory tests on your system, with
>     /usr/pkgsrc/sysutils/memtestplus   Only if that runs multi-core
>     without errors for hours should you proceed to the next step.
>
>   - running the atf tests (you may need to install a tests set) in
>     /usr/tests.   See atf-run, and atf-report.