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Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:06:01 -0600
From: Joshua Lokken <joshua.lokken@gmail.com>
To: Marco Beishuizen <marco@beishuizen.info>
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Subject: Re: portupgrade failure
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On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:29:51 +0100 (CET), Marco Beishuizen
<marco@beishuizen.info> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to upgrade firefox with portupgrade, but it fails with the
> following error:
> 
> root@yokozuna># portupgrade firefox
> Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..^Cfailed to generate INDEX!
> index generation error
> /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:482:in `open_db': database file error (PortsDB::DBError)
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:634:in `port'
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:822:in `all_depends_list'
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:915:in `tsort_build'
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `each'
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:907:in `tsort_build'
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:929:in `sort_build'
>          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:933:in `sort_build!'
>          from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:674:in `main'
>          from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `initialize'
>          from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `new'
>          from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:207:in `main'
>          from /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade:1845
> 
> Does anyone know what the problem is?

You may be able to make this problem go away by doing:

# cd /usr/ports
# make fetchindex


-- 
Joshua Lokken
Open Source Advocate