Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:21:20 -0500 From: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: FreeBSD_Questions FreeBSD_Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format Message-ID: <472B94D0.8070104@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <E6EEC201-0F50-4442-A989-9BA05D4E03C1@goldmark.org> References: <E6EEC201-0F50-4442-A989-9BA05D4E03C1@goldmark.org>
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Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > Yesterday I moved from 6.2-RELENG to 7-RELENG and everything worked fine > (though I do have a few questions about mergemaster that I'll ask later). > > As suggested on this list, I started to rebuild all of my ports. > > I started with > > portupgrade -f '<2007-11-01 12:00' > > and all seemed to go well until I realized that I should have added > "--batch" to that. So I interrupted the process and restarted with > > > portupgrade -f --batch '<2007-11-01 12:00' > > This has been running apparently just fine overnight, but then I noticed > that after building each port, they didn't get installed because I was > getting an error like > > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument > > So I stopped things again and tried to fix pkgdb.db > > $ sudo pkgdb -v -F > ---> Checking the package registry database > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument > $ sudo file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db > /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) > > What should I do now. I suppose that my problem was with interrupting > the portupgrade the first time 'round. But is there anything I can do > to fix this. I've seen no responses, is this still a problem? First off, what does `file /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db` report? And have you looked at pkgdb(5)? I'm only guessing, but maybe `pkgdb -aF` for starters, and maybe you'll have to do `pkgdb -u`. YMMV, and all that. Kevin Kinsey -- We totally deny the allegations, and we're trying to identify the allegators.
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