Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?

[Alex de Kruijff]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 04:18:47PM -0700, Matt Navarre wrote:
> On Saturday 25 September 2004 02:35, Matt Navarre wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Ok, that didn't work. I regenerated pkgdb.db using pkgdb -u and got the same 
> problem. Odd thing is that so far gnucash is the only installed package that 
> generates this error. I suppose I can pkg_delete it and try reinstalling.

It could be a problem with the DBDriver. You could try this:
Edit /root/.cs...
and add
PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash

Then execute this in your shell also. Then do:
pkgdb -u && portsdb -u && portupgrade -R gnucash

-- 
Alex

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