Re: Portupgrade problem, possible pkgdb problem?

From: Alex de Kruijff (freebsd_at_akruijff.dds.nl)
Date: 09/26/04

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    Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 02:13:22 +0200
To: Matt Navarre <mnavarre@cox.net>

    On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 04:18:47PM -0700, Matt Navarre wrote:
    > On Saturday 25 September 2004 02:35, Matt Navarre wrote:
    > > I'm trying to upgrade gnucash, but portupgrade is choking:
    > >
    > > reichlieu# portupgrade -R gnucash
    > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:323:in `deorigin': cannot
    > > convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)
    > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:916:in
    > > `tsort_build' from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:915:in `each'
    > > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:915:in `tsort_build' from
    > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `each' from
    > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `tsort_build' from
    > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:929:in `sort_build' from
    > > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:933: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:1845
    > >
    > > It looks like the pkgdb has something wrong with it, but pkgdb -Fu doesn't
    > > report anything that seems like it would cause portupgrade to bomb. There's
    > > a duplicate origin for cdrtools, but that doesn't seem to pertain.
    > >
    > > Should I move /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db out of the way and regenerate it? Will
    > > pkgdb -u recreate pkgdb.db?
    >
    > Ok, that didn't work. I regenerated pkgdb.db using pkgdb -u and got the same
    > problem. Odd thing is that so far gnucash is the only installed package that
    > generates this error. I suppose I can pkg_delete it and try reinstalling.

    It could be a problem with the DBDriver. You could try this:
    Edit /root/.cs...
    and add
    PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash
    PKG_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash

    Then execute this in your shell also. Then do:
    pkgdb -u && portsdb -u && portupgrade -R gnucash 

    -- 
Alex
Articles based on solutions that I use:
http://www.kruijff.org/alex/FreeBSD/
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