Portmanager gives me an error message

[Chris Whitehouse]

Chris Whitehouse wrote:
> 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

In fact (replying to my own message :p)

chrisw at muji% portmanager -v
portmanager must be run as root