From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 5 06:01:34 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 73C5F16A4DA for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 06:01:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gobbledegeek@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FB743D45 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 2006 06:01:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gobbledegeek@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g2so668682nfe for ; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:01:31 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=R5G00v6aApGKr61/qXFi3+mSqLQ9n7PPtWyPLpBMKV2mBXHqWSs6fN/Q8mevWiVpwUZpPPXIzjifG2/lOiSp8hFdNDnC8Sdd8if3DkbXhooFw7cpWPLDd+YXD5hSXm1PJ08GdT1e/HMuWB9VN8v4JXQjYVjVRA55aGjRYXHfIR4= Received: by 10.78.185.16 with SMTP id i16mr1829087huf; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 23:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.143.14 with HTTP; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 23:01:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463aea570608042301k6cf1d8c1ye855cc1e2f015e2b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 11:31:31 +0530 From: Gobbledegeek To: "michael johnson" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <463aea570608032316j392ac6bbsdc39d31d4bf7cf75@mail.gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Deleted /var/db/pkg, gnome_upgrade aborts 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: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 06:01:34 -0000 yup ! doing that! Thanks for the tip! Rgrds On 8/4/06, michael johnson wrote: > > > > On 8/4/06, Gobbledegeek wrote: > > I rebuilt the pkgdb.db but all the other files are gone... > > Now portupgrade thinks no packages are installed. > > gnome-upgrade.sh aborts because it cannot handle 'nilclass' string. > > > > Any tips to get back my list of installed packages, or get > > gnome_upgrade to run? > > > You have no files under /var/db/pkg ? > you might as well rm -rf /usr/X11R6 /usr/local and reinstall > everything. > > > > Please cc to me as I'm not subscribed. > -- > Rgrds > GobbledeGeek > [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!] > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- Rgrds GobbledeGeek [Everything but Gobbledegook.. !!]