From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 27 15:05:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D1B216A4DF for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:05:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net) Received: from smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net [68.178.232.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1F0943D4C for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:05:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net) Received: (qmail 607 invoked from network); 27 Jul 2006 15:05:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gem-wbe05.mesa1.secureserver.net) (64.202.189.37) by smtpout15-02.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net with SMTP; 27 Jul 2006 15:05:25 -0000 Received: (qmail 24693 invoked by uid 99); 27 Jul 2006 15:05:25 -0000 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 08:05:25 -0700 From: Joshua Lewis To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060727080525.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.8b5f7bec2e.wbe@email.secureserver.net> User-Agent: Web-Based Email 4.3.16 X-Originating-IP: 65.193.202.231 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Corrupt pkgdb X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:05:27 -0000 I am setting up a new system and ran a portupgrade -a. Unfortunately I also in my arrogance tried to run XDM while the portupgrade was running. Well to make a long story short I could not exit out of XDM and get back to my console and had to reboot the system. Now I get an error that my pkgdb is corrupt when I try to rerun the portupgrade. Is there a way to rebuild that DB or do I have to reinstall the whole OS? I don't know how that pkgdb gets created so I don't know if it is created during the install or when I installed portupgrade. Any advice is welcome. Thanks. Sincerely, Joshua Lewis