From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 19 22:12:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5C4716A4DD for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:12:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B244143D6E for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:12:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i27so1056308wxd for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.21.4 with SMTP id 4mr7050447wxu; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net ( [67.189.184.224]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id i36sm5914077wxd.2006.08.19.15.10.37; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scorpio.seibercom.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C08BEB7 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (boss.seibercom.net [192.168.0.4]) (Authenticated sender: gerard@scorpio.seibercom.net) by scorpio.seibercom.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42985B9A4 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:10:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:10:42 -0400 From: Gerard Seibert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Organization: Seibercom In-Reply-To: <44E76C57.6040607@enabled.com> References: <20060819161547.GA2452@holestein.holy.cow> <44E76C57.6040607@enabled.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20060819180458.F286.GERARD@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.25 [en] X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Subject: Re: pkgdb -Fu failing: can't convert nil into String X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:12:12 -0000 Noah wrote: > okay thanks for the explanation - so what is the most optimal way of > fixing this without breaking things. Approximately a month ago, I had several error messages just like that. I finally just did a when presented with an option of [ yes | no | all]. I know, for some reason it does not always list that option, but you can use it anyway. I just deleted all of those broken links and everything has been fine since then. If you have portmanager on your system, after deleting those links, assuming you do, you could then run: portmanager -u -f -l -y That will rebuild your entire system with all the proper dependencies. Of course, update your ports first. HTH -- Gerard Seibert gerard@seibercom.net