Portupgrade failed - /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format

[Vlad GALU]

On 7/2/06, Dominik Zalewski <dzalewski at open-craft.com> wrote:
> I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-stable . Today I updated my ports tree using cvsup and
> then I ran as usually portupgrade -a . It upgraded my portupgrade to version
> portupgrade-2.1.3.2,2. After that portupgrade stopped working.
>
> Here is an error message:
>
> [root at silicon /]# portupgrade -a
> [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree>
> in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format --
> Invalid argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree>
> in /var/db/pkg ... [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree>
> in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format --
> Invalid argument; rebuild needed] [Rebuilding the pkgdb <format:bdb_btree>
> in /var/db/pkg ... /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format --
> Invalid argument: Cannot update the pkgdb!]: Cannot update the pkgdb!]
> Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -aFQ

   Removing pkgdb.db and INDEX-6.db and then rebuilding them with
pkgdb and portsdb did the trick for me.

>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
>      Dominik Zalewski
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