portupgrade missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!

Dominik Zalewski dzalewski at open-craft.com
Thu Feb 1 09:41:10 UTC 2007


Hi All,

I've just updated my portstree and I'm trying to run portupgrade , which gives 
me following error:

[root at silicon /usr/ports]# portupgrade -ai
--->  Session started at: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:22:00 +0200
[missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> 
in /usr/ports ... - 16413 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!
--->  Session ended at: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:22:06 +0200 (consumed 00:00:05)
/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


Cannot read the portsdb? 

[root at silicon /usr/ports]# ls -l /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  5272576 Feb  1 10:56 /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db

I also tried to delete pkgdb.db and recreate it using pkgdb -u , it didnt 
help.

I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE with portupgrade-2.2.2_1,2

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance,

	Dominik




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