portupgrade failing, portsdb error

[Duane Hill]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Drew Sanford wrote:

> I get the following error:
>
> root at drew(/usr/ports)# portupgrade gnome-vfs
> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports ... - 16885 port 
> entries found 
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000........ 
> ..... done]
> [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in 
> /usr/ports ... - 16885 port entries found 
> .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000........ 
> ..... done]
> missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db': database file 
> error (PortsDB::DBError)
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port'
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in 
> `all_depends_list'
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build'
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each'
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build'
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build'
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in `sort_build!'
>       from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main'
>       from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize'
>       from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new'
>       from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main'
>       from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084
>
> I've got Index up to date, I've run portsdb -u, and it seems to think 
> everything is good. Any recommendations? I've not seen this error before. 
> Thanks in advance.

I saw this when I didn't have the portupgrade port upgraded properly. It 
has changed the location.

>From /usr/ports/UPDATING:

20070205:
   AFFECTS: everybody
   AUTHOR: pav at FreeBSD.org

   New ports category was created - /usr/ports/ports-mgmt

   Most significant port moved to this new category is portupgrade.
   So don't be alarmed, it was not deleted. You can find it now in

   /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade