From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 6 16: 7: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net (we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net [24.126.232.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF4D37B404 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:06:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from unix.homeip.net (someone@unix.homeip.net [24.126.232.105]) by we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1706dL86933 for ; Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bear@unix.homeip.net) Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 16:06:39 -0800 (PST) From: Joey Garcia X-X-Sender: bear@we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Strange pkg_info error message - what's wrong with it? Message-ID: <20020206160022.B519-100000@we-24-126-232-105.we.mediaone.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Okay, so I noticed that pkg_info is giving me a weird error message. Here is some output and an example of usage and the message that I get. [3:59pm] bear@ircla (~) # pkg_info -Ia | grep ethereal pkg_info: unable to open +CONTENTS file ethereal-0.9.1 An X11/GTK network analyzer/capture tool The second line after the actual command invocation gives a message concerning the +CONTENTS file. I assumed that was the +CONTENTS file located for each package in /var/db/pkg. I'm not sure why it's giving me that error. This machine has been upgraded from 4.3-RELEASE to 4.5-RELEASE just the other day. I've also taken the liberty of going into /usr/src/usr.sbin/pkg_install and issuing a make install to try to reinstall the pkg_* utilities. Not sure what other information to give you, but if you need more just ask and I'll be happy to respond. Joseph Garcia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message