From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 21 13:51:17 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1276F16A417 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:51:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.85.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA75413C469 for ; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:51:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 9964 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Jul 2007 13:24:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=QA4UCwKCwAtWh2dkNBBAtiDyY29A+rT1OFTNZ2RmcayPA7jQzlzH0uYhtoe3FQ/GUWQgguShHpsQrzmO69y+GkCrtSPoJblH9tOdEmnHwsCaYeNmf1mq3iXVvUy22cvT5sMwB6ogZEs5+cj7FeJqG/YSS8PApeLxUO49tVXs4ok=; X-YMail-OSG: M1JTtQ0VM1nhem1DGVxXPaa10kLmOVuXgQZnu1AsN9.o..j0cX6uzKi0fvwJ.P.OLF3Opc4_vCcTJiNBMeWQrk6OnkiYDZtYTp6gcSO0Pxyjx4t.cnTwf9EY_xU7Fw-- Received: from [75.74.233.229] by web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:24:35 PDT Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 06:24:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <418971.9657.qm@web36506.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:37:00 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Update not working X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:51:17 -0000 I run FreeBSD-6.2-RELEASE-p6 on my machine and tried to install mplayer from ports. It complained of needing an update to X so I checked out section 20070519 of the /usr/ports/UPDATING file. I followed the steps therein but hit this error when I tried to do the portupgrade commands: ...17000.... ..... done] missing key: categories: Cannot reand the portsdb! /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:567: in `open_db': database file erro (PortsDB::DBError) Can anyone help me with this? --------------------------------- Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids.