portupgrade error

[Kent Stewart]

On Friday 16 July 2004 11:49 am, Guido Falsi wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I'm experiencing a strange erro message fro portupgrade:
>
> wedge# portupgrade -a
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:323:in `deorigin': cannot
> convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:916:in `tsort_build' from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:915:in `each' 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:907:in `each' from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `tsort_build' from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:929:in `sort_build' from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:933: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:1845
>
> I've looked around the mailing list archives and tried all the
> proposed solutions... rebuilding ruby and portupgrade from scratch,
> deleting and rebuilding all ports and pkg related databases,
> recvupping the ports tree from scratch(I have an empty refuse file).

This looks like the problem that portupgrade was having a while back. If 
you can't portupgrade portupgrade, delete it and build it from scratch. 
Ruby and been updated and you might as well start with it.

Kent

>
> None worked and I'm really out of ideas. Anyone can help?
>
> The machine is a -current cvsupped on Jul 13, but I don't think this
> is the cause of the problem.
>
> for reference:
>
> wedge# uname -a
> FreeBSD wedge.madpilot.net 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #3: Tue
> Jul 13 16:27:54 CEST 2004
> root at wedge.madpilot.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WEDGE  i386
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any kind of suggestion!

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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