pkgdb failure

[J. W. Ballantine]

Thanks,

I thought it was something like that, that's why i rebuilt th pkgdb.


----------  In Response to your message -------------

>  Date:  Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:30:47 -0800
>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>, questions at freebsd.org
>  From:  Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu>
>  Subject:  Re: pkgdb failure
>
>  J. W. Ballantine wrote:
>  > After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild
>  > all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following
>  > error messages.  The first once, the second multiple times, even
>  > after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu.
>  >
>  > [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument
] 
>  > [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports .
>  > .. - 17746 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type 
or 
>  > format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb!
>  > (/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db)]
>  >
>  >
>  > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument
>  >
>  > Any ideas on what is causing this?
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  >
>  > Jim Ballantine
>  >
>  >   
>  
>      That generally means that for whatever reason the pkgdb couldn't be 
>  read, which may mean that you need to rebuild ruby and all affected 
>  libraries to call up 7.x libs (at least based on experience that's 
>  what's happened with me).
>  Cheers,
>  -Garrett
>