Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 10:20:19 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>, "Adam" <blueeskimo@gmx.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please Message-ID: <200305031020.19808.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <00fb01c31192$884d98b0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <031301c310f4$1c456380$6e2a6ba5@tagalong> <1051956922.45399.5.camel@jake> <00fb01c31192$884d98b0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy>
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On Saturday 03 May 2003 09:39 am, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam" <blueeskimo@gmx.net> > To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 3:15 AM > Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please > > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 17:45, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > >> I'm not sure what I've done but I'll describe my symptoms. I'm > >> running 4.8-RELEASE with a Gnome2 desktop and the dependent ports. > >> The only additional ports I've installed are cvsup-without-gui, > >> portupgrade, > > mplayer, > > >> evolution, galeon, and their dependencies. Everything was > >> installed by portupgrade except portupgrade itself. Everything > >> was running along fine until I decided to use portupgrade to > >> upgrade my installed ports. > > > > Have you tried running 'pkgdb -F' as root? Does that help fix the > > database corruption? > > Yes I have. I do all my portupgrade tasks as root. However the > corruption remains. > I remember a discussion about massive corruption. You might do an archive search on "pkgdb -fu". It will force update or create the database. When you ran portupgrade to do your upgrade, what options did you use. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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