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On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 05:17:09PM -0600, Cody Holland wrote:
> After running cvsup, I then ran portdb -Uu and received the following
> error.
> 
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please
> wait..gnustep-slideshow-0.3: "/usr/ports/graphics/slideshowkit"
> non-existent -- dependency list incomplete
> ===> graphics/gnustep-slideshow failed
> *** Error code 1
> 1 error
> 
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports.
> failed to generate INDEX!
> portsdb: index generation error
> 
> How do I fix this?

Same thing just happened to me and searching on the web told me
to run "make fetchindex".  Worked for me.