Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:45:13 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <freebsd@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package Database DOA Message-ID: <200707052045.13595.freebsd@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <1183685033.87707.4.camel@primary.jacobs.org> References: <1183685033.87707.4.camel@primary.jacobs.org>
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On Thursday 05 July 2007 20:23:53 Mark Jacobs wrote: > My machine froze during a portupgrade process and I was forced to > reboot. Now my package database is corrupted. When I issue a pkg_version > I receive hundreds of these type errors; > > pkg_version: the package info for package 'cups-base-1.2.11_2' is > corrupt > > I attempted to delete and rebuild the database with the commands I know > but it didn't seem to fix the problem. > > Can someone assist me in rebuilding the database? > > Mark Jacobs try as root: mv /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.old pkgdb -fu i used this method to straighten mine out just the other day. hth, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org freebsd@dfwlp.com
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