Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 14:20:20 -0700 From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> To: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com>, "Adam" <blueeskimo@gmx.net>, "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please Message-ID: <001301c311b9$cd7143c0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> References: <031301c310f4$1c456380$6e2a6ba5@tagalong> <1051956922.45399.5.camel@jake> <00fb01c31192$884d98b0$0301a8c0@bigdaddy> <200305031020.19808.kstewart@owt.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kent Stewart" <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>; "Adam" <blueeskimo@gmx.net>; "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 10:20 AM Subject: Re: Help With Portupgrade/Ports Mess Please > 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. I'll look for that. Thanks! > When you ran portupgrade to do your upgrade, what options did you use. I went "balls out" and did "portupgrade '*'". :) Probably part of my problem... Thanks, Drew
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