From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 21 19:09:06 2003 Return-Path: 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 0E5AC16A4B3 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:09:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [12.15.124.245]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 491F843F93 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net (evrtwa1-ar12-4-46-162-188.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.46.162.188]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7094261; Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:09:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris To: Kent Stewart , ioang@verizon.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:08:49 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <200310212029.08699.ioang@verizon.net> <200310212048.03761.ioang@verizon.net> <200310211902.21883.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200310211902.21883.kstewart@owt.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310212108.49670.racerx@makeworld.com> Subject: Re: portupgrade problems, please help X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 02:09:06 -0000 On Tuesday 21 October 2003 09:02 pm, Kent Stewart wrote: > On Tuesday 21 October 2003 05:48 pm, ivan georgiev wrote: > > > > I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get: > > > > > > > > -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR > > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': > > > > failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError) > > > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in > > > > `tsort_build' from > > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:917:in `each' from > > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:917:in `tsort_build' > > > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:909:in `each' > > > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:909:in > > > > `tsort_build' from > > > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:931:in `sort_build' > > > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:935:in > > > > `sort_build!' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:674:in `main' > > > > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `initialize' > > > > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `new' > > > > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `main' > > > > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1846 > > > > > > > > Can someone tell how to fix it. I tried "pkgdb -uf" but it > > > > doesn't help. > > > > > > You may try to remove /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and pkgdb -u again. > > > > Thanks, but it didn't cure it :( > > I would force upgrade portupgrade before you do anything using > > portupgrade -Rf portupgrade. /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -fuF /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -arR -- Best regards, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363 PGP Mail encouraged / preferred - keys available on common key servers ______________________________________________________________________ 01010010011000010110001101100101011100100101100000000000