Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:08:49 -0500 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, ioang@verizon.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade problems, please help Message-ID: <200310212108.49670.racerx@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <200310211902.21883.kstewart@owt.com> References: <200310212029.08699.ioang@verizon.net> <200310212048.03761.ioang@verizon.net> <200310211902.21883.kstewart@owt.com>
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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
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Best regards,
Chris
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