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Subject: Re: portupgrade problems, please help
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ivan georgiev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I use 5_1_RELEASE. I do not know what happened but now I get:
> 
> -su-2.05b# portupgrade -arR
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:325:in `deorigin': failed 
> to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:918:in `tsort_build'
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:917:in `each'
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:917:in `tsort_build'
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:909:in `each'
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:909:in `tsort_build'
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:931:in `sort_build'
> from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:935: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:1846
> 
> Can someone tell how to fix it. I tried "pkgdb -uf" but it doesn't 
> help.

You may try to remove /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and pkgdb -u again.

Jens