portupgrade -arR errors

Ilya Vishnyakov ilya at edpausa.com
Fri Feb 2 16:00:36 UTC 2007


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Brian wrote:
> Ilya Vishnyakov wrote: Please help me to find out why portupgrade
> -arR gives me errors such as:
>
> missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb!
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db':
> database file error (PortsDB::DBError) from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port' from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in
> `all_depends_list' from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build'
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each' from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build'
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build'
>  from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in
> `sort_build!' from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main' from
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize' from
> /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new' from
> /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main' from
> /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084 However, I run  portsdb -Uu and it
> didn't show any errors.
>>
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> I fixed a similar problem by running portsnap/cvsup, deinstalling
> portupgrade, reinstalling portupgrade (a newer version) then
> running portupgrade.

> Brian

Thank you all. It works now.



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