From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 28 20:30:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22E4C16A4DA for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:30:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 756DA43D45 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:30:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1811691wxd for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:30:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.15.15 with SMTP id 15mr9987560wxo; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i33sm8489454wxd.2006.08.28.13.28.26; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:28:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E19C5B0; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:25:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90851C590; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:21:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:21:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Gerard Seibert To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" In-Reply-To: <20060828200137.26950.qmail@web53415.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20060828161718.P67591@scorpio.seibercom.net> References: <20060828200137.26950.qmail@web53415.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gerard Seibert List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:30:08 -0000 On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > Hi, > > I inherited a FreeBSD 4.8 box that had a lot of out of date ports on it. in > trying to fix some of this, i seem to have screwed up the package or > ports system in a way i cant manage to fix. > > For example if i try to run "portversion" i get: > > undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass > /usr/local/sbin/portversion:239: [BUG] Bus Error > > from Ruby (ruby 1.8.5 is up to date on the system). > > If i try to run "pkg_info" I quickly get: > > pkg_info: read_plist: bad command '@conflicts apache+ipv6-1.*' > > (i googled for similar problems and there were a few other reports > of this, with other packages, but no suggestion of how to fix them.) > > If i try to rebuild my ports index, I get > > gnopernicus-0.12.0: "/usr/ports/accessibility/gnome-speech" non-existent -- > dependency list incomplete" > > and nothing will go further. > > How can i get all of this sorted? i was really hoping to be able to update > most of this sytem but now i cant even get started to find out what needs it :-( > > Jen That is really quite an old version of FSBD. If possible, I think you would be well served by updating to the latest version - 6.1 - if possible. I may be wrong, but I do not believe that there is a lot of support for that version anymore. -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net Has anyone ever tasted an "end"? Are they really bitter?