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Subject: portupgrade - working directory curioisty
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Hi

I had the following

dns1# portupgrade -a                                                     
Cannot locate current working directory: No such file or directory   

# df showed /var was present with only 2% used.
# pkgdb -F showed up to date pkgdb with no errors

then 
#portupgrade -a

ran without any hitches.

Can anyone offer an explanation that solves my curiosity?

Thanks

David