portupgrade error - `deorigin': cannot convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)

From: Andy Smith (andy_at_freebsdwiki.org)
Date: 06/25/04

  • Next message: David Bishop: "via envy24 (ice1724)" 
    Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 19:25:12 +0000
To: FreeBSD-stable@freebsd.org

    Ever since a recent cvsup of ports and a portsdb -Uu, portupgrade
    has been giving the following error:

    ---> Session started at: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:58:25 +0000
    ---> Session ended at: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:58:28 +0000 (consumed 00:00:03)
    /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

    I have tried:

    - Waiting a day and doing another cvsup

    - Doing make index / portsdb -Uu

    - Removing ruby and portupgrade and reinstalling

    but I still get the same error.

    I also searched the mailing list archives and found someone with a
    very similar error:

    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2003-May/001255.html

    however, I've already learnt my lesson about refusing ports, and so
    my sup/refuse contains only:

    ports/INDEX
    ports/INDEX-5

    Anyone have any other ideas? 

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