pkgdb failure

[J. W. Ballantine]

Yes, seems you need to rebuild ruby, for safety I also rebuilt ruby-bdb and
portupgrade.  I then moved /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and ran pkgdb -fu.  Then
it was safe to run portupgrade.  

This is probably overkill, but it worked for me.

Jim

----------  In Response to your message -------------

>  Date:  Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:24:14 +1100
>  To:  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com>
>  From:  matti k <matti.k at bigpond.net.au>
>  Subject:  Re: pkgdb failure
>
>  On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:06:54 -0500
>  "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb at homer.att.com> wrote:
>  
>  > After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild
>  > all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following
>  > error messages.  The first once, the second multiple times, even
>  > after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu.
>  > 
>  > [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid
>  > argument] [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports .
>  > .. - 17746 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file
>  > type or format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb!
>  > (/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db)]
>  > 
>  > 
>  > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid
>  > argument
>  > 
>  > Any ideas on what is causing this?
>  
>  I got this as well, after portupgrade tried to register installation of
>  new ruby version. A pkgdb -F seemed to correct it and i continued on
>  with portupgrade with no more errors.
>  
>  Regards,
>  Matti
>