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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 2004 09:16:46 -0300
From:      "Giovanni P. Tirloni" <gpt@tirloni.org>
To:        jarsulicm@verizon.net
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade error
Message-ID:  <414ECA2E.8020101@tirloni.org>
In-Reply-To: <414D4EA7.1080104@verizon.net>
References:  <414D4EA7.1080104@verizon.net>

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Mike Jarsulic wrote:
 > I am getting the following error while running portupgrade:
 >
 > # portupgrade -arC
 > [Updating the pkgdb <format:bdb1_btree> in /var/db/pkg ... - 302
 > packages found(-0 +5) ..... done]
 > /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:323:in `deorigin': cannot
 > convert nil into String (PkgDB::DBError)

[...]

 > Has anyone seen this before and have any suggestions to fix it?

I ran into the same problem sometime ago and IIRC it was because of a 
Ruby update. You can try to pkg_delete portupgrade and install it again, 
it worked for me.

-- 
Giovanni



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