Internal system error

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I recently decided to try FreeBSD with the idea of switching to it from Linux. I had no trouble setting things up so I can PXE-boot and install from my (still linux) server, and installed it on a machine I use for testing new stuff. Like the computers I use for my everyday computing, the test box is an ancient Compaq Evo with a Pentium-4, 2GB RAM, and a large IDE HD. (My four Evo machines have from 40GB to 320GB HDs installed.)

And yes, I know I need to get newer equipment...but don't have the $$$ for it yet.

After playing around with the cli and getting familiar with the differences between FreeBSD and Linux, I installed X11 and gnome2 from the pre-compiled packages. And that is where I keep getting this strange error message:

Code: 
An internal error has occurred
A problem that we were not expecting has occurred. Please report this bug in your distribution bugtracker with the error description.

Clicking on "More details" displays the following text:

Code: 
The backend exited unexpectedly.  This is a serious error as the spawned backend did not complete the pending transaction.

This error sometimes appears immediately after booting and starting gnome2, and always appears when trying to use the "Administration -> add software" program, when I click on any item in the left pane. (Like "fonts," for instance, but all items in the software list that I tried produced the error.) It doesn't seem to affect anything other than the "add software" program (or whatever other program produces the error), and when it occurs immediately on starting gnome2, it doesn't appear to affect anything at all.

Any ideas about how to fix this?

Thanks in advance for your help.
 
It makes it to me too. I just ignore it... But if I ignore it, the packages won't install (the program says to me that it is installing, but it isn't installing).
 
Issue solved

For those who are still looking to solve this (I couldn't find it elsewhere either :) )

I have just installed FreeBSD 8.2 with Gnome 2 (Gnome 3 was not yet available via pkg_add somehow) and I came across the same issue

I solved it by rebuilding the ports tree:
# portsnap fetch
# portsnap extract

After running those 2 commands the packet manager (which was generating this alert) worked fine.
 
I had recently produced the same error by deleting ports-mgmt/portupgrade. I had done this because I'm using portmaster, but reinstalled it because there are a few things that I still needed. The workaround, i.e. stopping the error messages, was to disable software updates in Gnome.
 
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