Problem with portupgrade

Phillip Ledger phillip at philderbeast.com
Fri Mar 2 23:13:14 UTC 2007


Sergey Matveychuk wrote:

>Michael Proto wrote:
>  
>
>>Phillip Ledger wrote:
>>    
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>>>i have been trying to get portupgrade working, however everything i try
>>>to run it im getting an error with the portsdb. now i have tryed to
>>>rebuild it as requested initaly by portupgrade but im still getting an
>>>error
>>>
>>>portupgrade -aRr
>>>[missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in
>>>/var/tmp ... - 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!
>>>/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
>>>
>>>
>>>any idea whats causeing the issue or how to fix it?
>>>      
>>>
>>Try removing /usr/ports/INDEX-6.db and running "portsdb -u", which
>>should rebuild it from your existing /usr/ports/INDEX-6 file.
>>
>>(if you're using FreeBSD 5 it would be INDEX-5 above).
>>
>>    
>>
>
>If it does not help, you should update portupgrade to the last version
>and rebuild the database again.
>
>  
>
Even after a complete reinstall of the toll and rebuildig the database 
its still giving the same error. anyumore ideas?


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