From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 23 15:09:33 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93AB916A406 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:09:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7244F13C465 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:09:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 1218 invoked from network); 23 Apr 2007 15:09:33 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 23 Apr 2007 15:09:32 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8F5322842D; Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:09:31 -0400 (EDT) To: Drew Sanford References: <4628E19E.405@wilderness.homeip.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:09:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4628E19E.405@wilderness.homeip.net> (Drew Sanford's message of "Fri\, 20 Apr 2007 10\:51\:58 -0500") Message-ID: <44ejmbjff8.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade failing, portsdb error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:09:33 -0000 Drew Sanford writes: > I get the following error: > > root@drew(/usr/ports)# portupgrade gnome-vfs > [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - 16885 > port entries found > .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000........ ..... done] > [missing key: categories] [Updating the portsdb in > /usr/ports ... - 16885 port entries found > .........1000.........2000.........3000.........4000.........5000.........6000.........7000.........8000.........9000.........10000.........11000.........12000.........13000.........14000.........15000.........16000........ ..... done] > missing key: categories: Cannot read the portsdb! > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:548:in `open_db': > database file error (PortsDB::DBError) > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:702:in `port' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:890:in > all_depends_list' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:809:in `tsort_build' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `each' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:801:in `tsort_build' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:823:in `sort_build' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:827:in `sort_build!' > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:721:in `main' > from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:755:in `initialize' > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `new' > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:220:in `main' > from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:2084 > > I've got Index up to date, I've run portsdb -u, and it seems to think > everything is good. Any recommendations? I've not seen this error > before. Thanks in advance. "portsdb -F"?