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From: Oliver Hartmann <ohartman@zedat.fu-berlin.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: portsnap: look: tINDEX.new: File too large Portsnap metadata appears bogus.
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>Number:         161703
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       portsnap(8): look: tINDEX.new: File too large Portsnap metadata appears bogus.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    ed
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Oct 16 09:30:16 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:    Sat Oct 22 02:57:59 UTC 2011
>Last-Modified:  Sat Oct 22 02:57:59 UTC 2011
>Originator:     Oliver Hartmann
>Release:        FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 CLANG built
>Organization:
FU Berlin
>Environment:
FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #114 r226407 amd64
>Description:
Since for two days for now, my FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes refuses updating the ports tree with the below shown error message. The message came out of the blue and I have no clue how to solve the problem.

What I did so far:

I deleted /etc/portsnap.conf and installed again from /usr/share/examples/etc/. I deleted /var/db/portsnap and all files contained therein. But the same at all.


Error message:

Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
look: tINDEX.new: File too large

Portsnap metadata appears bogus.
Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.

>How-To-Repeat:
Do not know. This happens on FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 boxes.
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->cperciva 
Responsible-Changed-By: crees 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Oct 16 12:17:45 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Fix category and assign to maintainer 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161703 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: cperciva->ed 
Responsible-Changed-By: cperciva 
Responsible-Changed-When: Sun Oct 16 17:23:06 UTC 2011 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
This is a bug in look(1) which ed will hopefully fix soon. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161703 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: eadler 
State-Changed-When: Sat Oct 22 02:57:58 UTC 2011 
State-Changed-Why:  
fixed in r226444. Closed because the bug never manifested in a release 
build 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=161703 
>Unformatted:
