portupgrade failure

[Sean]

Marco Beishuizen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to upgrade firefox with portupgrade, but it fails with the 
> following error:
> 
> root at yokozuna># portupgrade firefox
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please 
> wait..^Cfailed 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
> 
> Does anyone know what the problem is?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Marco
I had that problem and deleted and reinstalled ruby cured it for me.

Sean