portupgrade error [cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)]

[paul beard]

I am having some problems with portupgrade. The error message is "/ 
usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:322:in `deorigin': " (more  
below). I see there have been isolated occurrences of this in June of  
2003 and 2004, curiously, but I haven't found the solutions there to  
work. Removing the ports tree and re-fetching it, removing and  
rebuilding pkgdb, removing and reinstalling portupgrade/ruby, etc,  
even building a new kernel and world, seem ineffective.

I'm still on 4.x (FreeBSD red.paulbeard.org 4.11-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD  
4.11-RELEASE-p11 #0: Tue Jul  5 10:46:00 PDT 2005      
root at red.paulbeard.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RED  i386) if that helps.

Please include me on replies as I am off the list.

Thanks for any pointers.

[/]# portsdb -Ufu
Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please  
wait..Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: freeciv-gtk2-2.0.1_2
Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_frontpage2-5.0.2.2635
Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_jk2-apache2-2.0.2
Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: mod_rpaf-ap2-0.5
Done.
done
[Updating the portsdb <format:dbm_hash> in /opt/ports ... - 13138  
port entries found ......... 
1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000... 
...... 
7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000 
.........13000. ..... done]
(root at red.paulbeard.org)-(03:34 PM / Fri Jul 08)
[/]# portupgrade -avvv
--->  Session started at: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:37:34 -0700
--->  Session ended at: Fri, 08 Jul 2005 15:37:56 -0700 (consumed  
00:00:22)
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:322:in `deorigin':
         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:914:in `each'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:914:in  
`tsort_build'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:906:in `each'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:906:in  
`tsort_build'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:928:in  
`sort_build'
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:932: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:1869

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Paul Beard
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