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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:46:38 +1100
From: Dave Symonds <dsymonds@gmail.com>
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Cc: Rob <rbyrnes@mailshack.com>
Subject: pkgdb -F stuck
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On 18/01/06, Rob <rbyrnes@mailshack.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was in the middle of updating the KDE ports when we had a blackout and =
my
> UPS wasn't able to keep the box alive long enough.  I have a feeling the
> pkgdb.db is corrupt, because when I try to do anything that touches it, t=
he
> process hangs while updating the pkgdb:
>
> % ps ax | grep ruby
> 4021  p2  R+   1288:56.99 /usr/local/bin/ruby18 /usr/local/sbin/portinsta=
ll -O
> kdebase
>
> Any way to recover this?

Run "pkgdb -fu". It should rebuild the database from scratch.


Dave.

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