From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 17 22:04:33 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BBA41065695 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:04:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3174F8FC20 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:04:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id n8HM4Tx1090481 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8HM4TgO080895 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n8HM4TIx080884; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:28 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Jeronimo Calvo Message-ID: <20090917220427.GA22019@dan.emsphone.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.94.2, clamav-milter version 0.94.2 on email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:04:29 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory (pkgdb -F) 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, 17 Sep 2009 22:04:33 -0000 In the last episode (Sep 17), Jeronimo Calvo said: > dealing with broken package.... (virtualbox which is driving me crazy) I > am getting the following error everytime i try to deinstall it, to make a > clean installation from source: > > pkg_delete: unable to completely remove directory > > any idea on how to manage to get rid of this error? That is a warning that the packing list included a directory delete request, but there were still files in it. It could be a bug in the plist (not specifying all the files the package installed), or it could be a shared directory that another package installed other files into. Regardless, it's just a warning and the package was deleted. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com