INDEX.tmp failure

[Gerrit Rüsing]

Hello heroes,

here is my problem:

... cvsup -g -L 2 ... =>
Shutting down connection to server
Finished successfully
gerrit# portupgrade -arR
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please 
wait.."Makefile", line 1: Need an operator
make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue
===> security/strobe failed
*** Error code 1
1 error

********************************************************************
Before reporting this error, verify that you are running a supported
version of FreeBSD (see http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/) and that you
have a complete and up-to-date ports collection.  (INDEX builds are
not supported with partial or out-of-date ports collections -- in
particular, if you are using cvsup, you must cvsup the "ports-all"
collection, and have no "refuse" files.)  If that is the case, then
report the failure to ports at FreeBSD.org together with relevant
details of your ports configuration (including FreeBSD version,
your architecture, your environment, and your /etc/make.conf
settings, especially compiler flags and WITH/WITHOUT settings).

Note: the latest pre-generated version of INDEX may be fetched
automatically with "make fetchindex".
********************************************************************

*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports.
failed to generate INDEX!
index generation error
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:482:in `open_db': database 
file error (PortsDB::DBError)
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:634:in `port'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:822:in 
`all_depends_list'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:915:in 
`tsort_build'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `each'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in 
`tsort_build'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:929:in 
`sort_build'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:933:in 
`sort_build!'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:674:in `main'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `initialize'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `new'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `main'
         from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1845

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FreeBSD xxxx.com 4.9-RELEASE-p12 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p12 #6: Fri Nov 12 
09:32:15 CET 2004     xxxxxxx.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GERRITKERNEL  
i386
=========================

gerrit# cat /etc/make.conf
XFREE86_VERSION=        4
# -- use.perl generated deltas -- #
# Created: Thu Apr 24 11:26:00 2003
# Setting to use base perl from ports:
CPUTYPE=i686
CFLAGS= -O -pipe
PERL_VER=5.6.1
PERL_VERSION=5.6.1
PERL_ARCH=mach
NO_FORTRAN = true
NO_I4B = true
NOGAMES = true
NOUUCP = true
XFREE86_VERSION = 4
COMPAT22 = true

SUPFLAGS= -g -L 2
SUPHOST= cvsup6.de.FREEBSD.org
SUPFILE=/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
PORTSSUPFILE=/etc/cvsupfile

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OK, it's not a 4.10-RELEASE ...
Does it make sense to follow that advice to do a "make fetchindex" or
would that be too dangerous?

Thank you for any help ...
You are the best ..

Kind regards
Gerrit