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Date:      Thu, 1 Aug 2002 16:15:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jack Twilley <jmt@twilley.org>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   ports/41248: portupgrade -a fails in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)
Message-ID:  <200208012315.g71NFxPm072505@www.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         41248
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       portupgrade -a fails in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 01 16:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jack Twilley
>Release:        4.6-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD duchess.twilley.org 4.6-STABLE FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE #3: Thu Aug  1 08:55:10 PDT 2002     root@duchess.twilley.org:/usr2/obj/usr2/src/sys/DUCHESS  i386

>Description:
bash$ sudo /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -a
/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:232:in `deorigin': failed to convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:800:in `tsort_build'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:799:in `each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:799:in `tsort_build'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:791:in `each'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:791:in `tsort_build'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:813:in `sort_build'
        from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.6/pkgdb.rb:817:in `sort_build!'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:604:in `main'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:191:in `initialize'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:191:in `new'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:191:in `main'
        from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1611

I've rebuilt the pkgdb and portsdb and that doesn't fix the problem.
>How-To-Repeat:
On my system, I just run "sudo /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -a", but
this isn't happening to anyone else I know.
>Fix:
No known fix.      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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