Upgrade problems "Invalid db entry"

fre · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Belgium

Hi,

I still had some old boxes around with pre 1.0 (rc6) Gentoo on them. I started the upgrade as described in http://lists.gentoo.org/pipermail/gentoo-user/2002-May/022860.html

This went fine on most except on 2 systems where I get the following:

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

Try:

fre · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Belgium

I tried that in your advise with no luck

This is what I got:

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/me wonders how to update the portagedb
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delta407 · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 3:29 am Post subject:

The Portage DB should upgrade automatically when Portage is installed.

"emerge -u portage" should fix matters.

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delta407 · Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2002 3:44 am Post subject:

Oh, sure, take the easy way out.

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fre · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 9 Location: Belgium

I tried both upgrade methods (emerge -u portage and /usr/lib/portage/bin/db-update.py) without success... :cry:

problem is that this is on a production server. I dare not to just delete this files. Everything else seems to work

Please, any other ideas or info?

Thanks,

Frederik.