Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 06:26:53 -0800 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>, eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> Subject: Re: pkgdb format Message-ID: <43B3F22D.5070601@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <43B3EEF9.3010004@freebsd.org> References: <F7AA4FC0-B189-408E-9FAC-180917D2CCF8@redry.net> <200512071741.03088.kstewart@owt.com> <43B3EEF9.3010004@freebsd.org>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > After reading this thread, I killed the upgrade, deleted INDEX-6, > INDEX-6.db, and pkgdb.db; rebuilt pkgdb.db using `pkgdb -u' and re-ran > `portupgrade -af' > > It started off OK (using dbm_hash) but after a couple of hours it had > started continually rebuilding pkgdb.db. > > Anyone else got any ideas? I had exactly the same problem during portupgrading after a 5.4->6.0 base system upgrade until I did a `portupgrade -fR portupgrade`, at which point it stopped (and has been fine ever since). I have no idea what the problem is or why this would fix it, but you might like to try this and see if it helps. Colin Percival
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