Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 07:31:34 -0800 From: Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Joshua Lewis <joshua.lewis@familyfunzone.net> Subject: Re: Corrupt pkgdb Message-ID: <200607270731.54819.beech@alaskaparadise.com> In-Reply-To: <20060727080525.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.8b5f7bec2e.wbe@email.secureserver.net> References: <20060727080525.e72c8bd2fa3c8298c4bf39a8c4c61b77.8b5f7bec2e.wbe@email.secureserver.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--nextPart16990669.fYD2rNNbR3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 27 July 2006 07:05, Joshua Lewis wrote: > 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 Just rm or mv /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db and it will be rebuilt the next time you= =20 run portupgrade. Beech =2D-=20 =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- Beech Rintoul - Sys. Administrator - beech@alaskaparadise.com /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Alaska Paradise \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 201 East 9Th Avenue Ste.310 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99501 / \ - Please visit Alaska Paradise - http://www.alaskaparadise.com =2D------------------------------------------------------------------------= =2D------------- --nextPart16990669.fYD2rNNbR3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEyNxqp5D0B1NlT4URAooEAJ4mo1EBeROHpsdp2NpEimAhbxFTSwCfVfEw WRYNvWg+AqkIC7hoj2WtQ5c= =jWXP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart16990669.fYD2rNNbR3--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200607270731.54819.beech>