From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 13 00:13:29 2004 Return-Path: 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 E30CB16A4CE for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:13:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from usgrant.trismegistus.net (crtntx1-ar6-4-64-087-170.crtntx1.dsl-verizon.net [4.64.87.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B4A643D1F for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 00:13:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hermes@trismegistus.net) Received: from sherman (sherman.trismegistus.net [192.168.0.12]) by usgrant.trismegistus.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86E061B for ; Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:13:26 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 02:13:26 -0600 (CST) From: Hermes Trismegistus To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040313015712.K74166@sherman.trismegistus.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Major Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 08:13:30 -0000 This request is much a cry in desperation. I have tried everything possible, at least, everything I know to do. I have sent inquiries to the ports list, none can solve it. After I run my cvsup on my ports, I get this kind of stderr at the CLI when I run the "portsdb -Uu": --------------just a small snip of the errors------------------ make_index: ifm-4.1_2: no entry for /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84 make_index: gnomeblog-0.7_1: no entry for /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 make_index: gnomeblog-0.7_1: no entry for /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries make_index: gnomeblog-0.7_1: no entry for /usr/ports/misc/gnomehier make_index: gnomeblog-0.7_1: no entry for /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/py-gtk2 make_index: gnomeblog-0.7_1: no entry for /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4-libraries Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: *** Error code 1 Warning: Duplicate INDEX entry: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Where can I go to get some help to fix this problem with the INDEX files in "/usr/ports". Take my word for it. I have spent hours going through the archives, google, and ports@freebsd.org. Would you please just toss a url my way that has a solution to this. Anything, please.... uname -a FreeBSD sherman.trismegistus.net 5.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Mar 1 20:47:16 CST 2004 root@sherman.trismegistus.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SHERMAN i386 cvs-supfile: *default tag=. *default host=cvsup9.us.FreeBSD.org *default prefix=/usr *default base=/usr/local/etc/cvsup *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all ports-all Thanks for your time. Cheers J. Craig Woods UNIX/Linux Network/System Administration http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.htm Entropy requires no maintenance.