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

From: Kent Stewart (kstewart_at_owt.com)
Date: 06/25/04

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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:10:44 -0700

    On Friday 25 June 2004 12:25 pm, Andy Smith wrote:
    > 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.htm
    >l
    >
    > 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?

    Someone on ports said to run portsdb -fu to fix this one. The cooment
    was
    > Probably a ruby bug. Rebuilding {pkg|ports}.db from scratch will do, I
    think.

    But I thought that was a pkgdb -fu.

    Kent 

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA
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