Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?

Matt Navarre mnavarre at cox.net
Sat Sep 25 14:35:50 PDT 2004


I'm trying to upgrade gnucash, but portupgrade is choking:

reichlieu# portupgrade -R gnucash
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:323:in `deorigin': cannot convert 
nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:916:in `tsort_build'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:915:in `each'
        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

It looks like the pkgdb has something wrong with it, but pkgdb -Fu doesn't 
report anything that seems like it would cause portupgrade to bomb. There's a 
duplicate origin for cdrtools, but that doesn't seem to pertain.

Should I move /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db out of the way and regenerate it? Will 
pkgdb -u recreate pkgdb.db?

Thanks,
Matt
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