Portmanager gives me an error message

Chris Whitehouse cwhiteh at onetel.com
Fri Jan 23 16:53:37 PST 2009


Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:04:03 +0000
> Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh at onetel.com> wrote:
> 
>> Eduardo Cerejo wrote:
>>> I'm trying to upgrade any port with portmanager because portupgrade keeps failing all the time.  No matter what port I try to upgrade I get this error:
>>>
>>> sudo portmanager x11/xterm -l -u
>> According to the man page you don't need the -u when doing a single 
>> port, see EXAMPLES.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>> Password:
>>> MGrStrlen error: NULL marker not found in string
>>> Assertion failed: (0), function MGrStrlen, file MGrStrlen.c, line 54.
>>> Abort
>>>
>>> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1 release.
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> 
> I want it to do the same thing that 'portupgrade -R whateverport' does

What happens if you run as root

# portmanager x11/xterm -l

?
What version of portmanager are you using?

# portmanager -v




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