Problem with portupgrade

Ghirai ghirai at ghirai.com
Fri Apr 6 20:47:38 UTC 2007


Hello Josh,

Friday, April 6, 2007, 11:08:02 PM, you wrote:

>> deimos# portupgrade -PR libmpeg2
>> [Updating the portsdb >format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 16851
>> port entries found
>> {lines cut} ..... done]
>> [missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!
>> database file error
>>
>> {following some ruby errors regarding the fact that the db can't be
>> read?!}

> Try removing (or moving so you have a backup) your
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db file, then running pkgdb -u to update/create it.

> Josh

I did that, it recreated the file w/o errors, but i get the same error
message.

-- 
Best regards,
Ghirai.



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