portupgrade -varR

[David Stanford]

On 10/9/06, Wernher Eksteen <cryptixd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> New to your list, so please forgive if I'm not doing this right, in which
> case please show me the way :)
>
> I have this issue when running portupgrade;
>
> /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -varR
> --->  Session started at: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:12:24 +0100
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ...
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument;
> rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg
> ...
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg ...
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument;
> rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree> in /var/db/pkg
> ...
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument:
> Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!]
> Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFQ
> --->  Session ended at: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:12:26 +0100 (consumed
> 00:00:01)
>
> I'm pretty new to using Portupgrade, and need some help with this. No idea
> what this means or how to fix it.
> Any pointers would be much appreciated!



Wernher,

For general questions you should send emails to the freebsd-questions list.

Regarding your question, I believe the problem is that you recently upgraded
your Berkeley DB and/or portupgrade and now your version of portupgrade is
incompatible with the previous database. I had this problem a while back and
if I remember correctly you have to delete your previous portupgrade
database and running it afterwards will just create a new one. However, I
don't remember how I did this so I would suggest mailing the questions list
as I'm sure someone there will have the answer.

-David
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