portupgrade problems, please help

ivan georgiev ioang at verizon.net
Tue Oct 21 17:48:08 PDT 2003


> > I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get:
> >
> > -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin':
> > failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)
> > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in
> > `tsort_build' from
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:917:in `each' from
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:917:in `tsort_build'
> > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:909:in `each'
> > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:909:in
> > `tsort_build' from
> > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:931:in `sort_build'
> > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:935: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:1846
> >
> > Can someone tell how to fix it. I tried "pkgdb -uf" but it
> > doesn't help.
>
> You may try to remove /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and pkgdb -u again.

Thanks, but it didn't cure it  :( 



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