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From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: pkgdb failure
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J. W. Ballantine wrote:
> After upgrading from 6-STABLE to 7-RELEASE, I tried to rebuild
> all the packages from portupgrade -af I started getting the following
> error messages.  The first once, the second multiple times, even
> after I moved the pkgdb.db and did a pkgdb -fu.
>
> [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument] 
> [Updating the portsdb <format:bdb_btree> in /usr/ports .
> .. - 17746 port entries found /usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or 
> format -- Invalid argument: Cannot update the portsdb!
> (/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db)]
>
>
> /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument
>
> Any ideas on what is causing this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim Ballantine
>
>   

    That generally means that for whatever reason the pkgdb couldn't be 
read, which may mean that you need to rebuild ruby and all affected 
libraries to call up 7.x libs (at least based on experience that's 
what's happened with me).
Cheers,
-Garrett