Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2001 12:41:54 -0400 (EDT) From: parv_@yahoo.com To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/31168: portupgrade problem: 'update_db': instance of IO needed: Cannot update the packages database! Message-ID: <20011009164154.C49BE50BC5@moo.holy.cow>
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>Number: 31168
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: portupgrade problem: 'update_db': instance of IO needed: Cannot update the packages database!
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Oct 09 09:50:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: parv
>Release: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD moo.holy.cow 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 3 19:33:26 EDT 2001
>Description:
in /source/ports/distfiles, when i issued following command...
# portupgrade bladeenc-0.92
...portupgrade started upgrading everything in /var/db/pkg (247 of
them), so i interrupted it via Ctrl-C. after that, when i tried the
following command, got error...
# portupgrade bladee*
[Updating the packages database in /var/db/pkg ... /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:343:in `update_db': instance of IO needed: Cannot update the packages database!] (PkgDB::DBError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:349:in `open_db'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:481:in `installed_pkgs_'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:409:in `installed_pkg?'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:115:in `pkg'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:520:in `glob'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:416:in `main'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:415:in `catch'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:415:in `main'
... 6 levels...
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:175:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:175:in `new'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:175:in `main'
from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1408
...seems like package db was messed up or something is wrong w/ the
newest version of portupgrade. when i tried fixing db, it produced
the following message...
# pkgdb -F
[Updating the packages database in /var/db/pkg ... instance of IO needed: Cannot update the packages database!]
portupgrade version is 20011006.1, and am using 4.4-stable. i had
cvsup'd ports a few minutes ago and deleted everything ruby before
installing it again...
# pkg_delete -d -f ruby*
...after all that, portupgrade still gives the above message. what am
i missing? i had already looked at pr 29956 w/ similar problem where
above (deinstall & reinstall again) worked, but not for me.
http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=29956
here is the listing of /var/db/pkg...
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 6 20:13 /var/db/pkg/portupgrade-20011006.1/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 6 20:12 /var/db/pkg/ruby-1.6.5/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 6 20:13 /var/db/pkg/ruby-fnmatch-1.1b_1/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 6 20:13 /var/db/pkg/ruby-optparse-0.8.4/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Oct 6 20:13 /var/db/pkg/ruby-uri-0.9,1/
>How-To-Repeat:
may be start portupgrade like...
# portupgrade '*'
...then interrupt it; afterwords try to upgrade one particular port
to produce the error.
i cannot be sure if the above will work as i didn't have a chance
to try it myself due to the reasons described above.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
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